Importing Flash Games into Storyline Apr 03, 2014 By Niki Bray I purchased a flash-based game from eLearning Brothers and want to import it into Storyline. How do I do that? Thank you!
Michael Hinze 10 years ago04/03/14 at 12:09 pm (UTC) Hi Niki, welcome to the community. Assuming that the game comes as a Flash (.swf) file, you can insert it into Storyline as described here.
Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard Staff 10 years ago04/03/14 at 12:11 pm (UTC) HI Niki, Welcome to Heroes! It looks like Michael has you covered, but please let us know if you need anything else.
Niki Bray Author 10 years ago04/03/14 at 12:15 pm (UTC) Hi! The file is a .fla file. I tried to upload from the Flash button on the ribbon and it didn't recognize the .fla file.
Michael Hinze 10 years ago04/03/14 at 12:37 pm (UTC) Niki Bray said: Hi! The file is a .fla file. I tried to upload from the Flash button on the ribbon and it didn't recognize the .fla file. .fla is the Flash source file format. You first need to open the source file in Flash and then publish it to .swf
Niki Bray Author 10 years ago04/03/14 at 1:28 pm (UTC) Ok, I opened Flash and accessed the .fla file to the game and got the following message: "Unexpected file format."
Michael Hinze 10 years ago04/03/14 at 1:30 pm (UTC) Niki Bray said: Ok, I opened Flash and accessed the .fla file to the game and got the following message: "Unexpected file format." You might want to check with eLearning Brothers' support. Maybe it's a Flash version issue.
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Hi Niki, welcome to the community. Assuming that the game comes as a Flash (.swf) file, you can insert it into Storyline as described here.
HI Niki,
Welcome to Heroes! It looks like Michael has you covered, but please let us know if you need anything else.
Hi! The file is a .fla file. I tried to upload from the Flash button on the ribbon and it didn't recognize the .fla file.
Ok, I opened Flash and accessed the .fla file to the game and got the following message: "Unexpected file format."