Easter eggs you say. What is an Easter egg? An Easter egg is a bit of fun code created by developers and then hidden inside a program. Easter Eggs normally consist of games or other fun stuff, hidden inside programs, including Flash , Flash Pro, and Flash Educational versions. Two of these hidden secrets will be revealed to you in this tutorial. If you know of any others, you can share them with all of us via the forum.

I originally learned about this particular ¡°Easter Egg¡± through Rabid's posting since they don't write about this stuff in books!.

Flash 8: First Easter Egg

Flash 8 has two Easter eggs. The first is here:

1. Open the: Program
2. Go to: Help > About Flash (or About Flash Professional)
3. Click on the dot of the: Macromedia i
   
   
   Click on the dot of the macromedia i.

   Note: You will probably need to click several times as the button is only 1px by 1px. Eventually your mouse will stumble onto the right place.

You will then see the following hidden games:


The six hidden games that you can find in Flash MX 2004

Flash 8: The Second Easter Egg

1. Open the: Program
2. Go to: Help > About Flash (or About Flash Professional)
3. Click in the centre of the: 8
   
   
   Click in the centre of the 8.

   Note: You will probably need to click several times as the button is only 1px by 1px. Eventually your mouse will stumble onto the right place.

You will then see a photo montage:


One of the frames from the Photo display video.

This photo slide show is a display of all the developers that worked on Flash 8.

Flash MX 2004 / MX 2004 Pro:

Flash MX04 has one Easter Egg. You can find it here:

1. Open the program
2. Go to: Help > About Flash (or About Flash Professional)
3. Underneath the logo you will see the words: 2004^TM
4. Click on the: ^TM

   Note: You will probably need to click several times as the button is only 1px by 1px. Eventually your mouse will stumble onto the right place.

5. You will then see the following:
   
   
   The six hidden games that you can find in Flash MX 2004
   

Flash MX:

1. Open the program
2. Go to: Help > About Flash
3. You will see the words: Flash MX
4. Click just under the crutch of the: X

   Note: It's hard to get the exact spot so just keep clicking until you get the right place.

5. You will then see the games as above.

Have Fun !!

US Government

Like other software publishers Microsoft products had their share of Easter Eggs but not anymore. After 9 - 11 the US government leaned on Microsoft as the US authorities did not want hidden programs. Slightly paranoid ??? Well anyway no more fun at Microsoft.

Addition Comments: Sent in by Michael

In Flash MX 2004 on Mac OS X 10.4.3, I tried the easter egg and Flash attempted to connect to the Internet. I have a firewall enabled which stopped it and the games did not work. When I allowed the activity, they showed up just fine. Looks as if they're either running from a remote location, or Macromedia wants to know when people are using them.

I can verify that I have had similar results on a Windows PC - Phil.

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