You can still do this. There’re loads of free and basic (i.e. easy-to-learn) game engines and you can make games of much better quality with the same effort. itch.io is full of free games made by amateurs.
When people celebrate the downfall of Flash, it’s not because of the games. It’s because the entire internet was replete with unnecessary Flash-heavy bullshit that required constantly updating your browser’s Flash plugins (and all browsers had their own version you had to install and update), and how it was completely unsuited to any sort of UI/UX (e.g. you couldn’t even copy and paste text in Flash pages most of the time). And all that is to say nothing of the gaping goatse of a security hole that it was.
It was cancer. Just because the cancer got you down to your goal weight, it doesn’t mean you should lament the success of your chemotherapy.
Flashpoint Archive is attempting to archive all the flash games and animations.
nostalgia has made these crap games great. they never were good in the first place. you had a good laugh as a 12 year old at tech class, but thats it.
QWOP was hilarious though.
For five minutes, maybe.
The last line I don’t remember being true. Pretty much everybody were pissed that flash was canceled. I sure as shit was. Still go to ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ to play his old flash games. He managed to make them work again after flash was discontinued. I was so happy because I love his games and their atmosphere.
Also loved the Bitey animations with the little pan who runs around being a total asshole to animals in this weird fantasy world.
I dunno why this anon thinks that millennials were celebrating the downfall of flash. We really didn’t. We just didn’t have any power to save it.
The amateur game dev community is thriving like never before. Itch.io has become Newgrounds on steroids, full of incredibly creative, fun and free games.
People like to complain about what has been lost on the modern internet, without spending any time actually looking and trying out the new niches.
How are you finding decent free games on itch? Every time I go it’s a flood of visual novels, shit “horror” games, or whatever the latest streamer bait is but poorly copied 1000 times. And the filtering tools are just limited enough that I can’t seem to get a good “feed” going.
Newgrounds was far from a neverending fountain of pure quality, but I feel like finding quality stuff on it is an order of magnitude harder than it used to be in the days of flash. Used to be curated lists and sites with new quality stuff like every week.
Fancy Pants, Falling Sand, various stick fighting games, Whack Your Boss, moto trials games, Punk-O-Matic, Line Rider, etc etc
Gooooood timesMaking things is Godot actually feels a lot like making Flash games used to
It wasn’t about the technology, it was the zeitgeist of that era. If HTML 5 was available at the time, people would code in that
Who the fuck celebrated? I remembered many pissed off millennials and Gen x
The people mistakenly claiming html5 was going to be the next Flash, I guess
It… Is? Check out itch.io and there’s still.shitloads of browser games around.
Well ok, I guess it eventually got there, but at the time Flash was getting shut down there wasn’t any equivalent self contained game engine IDE that compared, it was a big setback.
Also some of them are high quality porn games. This is both a warning and an advertisement depending on ones temperament.
I did, flash was a pile of garbage especially on anything not windows
Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170615060422/https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash
I’m not a fan of Steve Jobs but here he was just laying down facts
Once Adobe got their grubby hands on it, everything went down hill but Macromedia at least did security updates.
To be fair, flash was garbage proprietary tech fully under control of fucking Adobe. All the shit people hate about JavaScript now, the spying, the adtech, was done in flash first.
Iirc, wasn’t flash deprecated because of unpatchable bugs that created a gaping hole in your browser security?
Ironically I believe flash mostly died for that as a founding moment on why apple would not support it on iPhones. Adobe only finally killed it after safari decided it wouldn’t support it
maybe that too, but mainly it was the move from desktops to smartphones and tablets, which Flash was (at minimum) not very suited for if it was supported at all
This may be the only good thing caused by the existence of iOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash
There’s plenty of criticisms to be made against Apple, iOS, etc, but “the only good thing” is a super generic and reductive statement. Proper sandboxing, app review by humans for people just hitting “install” the A chips leading to the M chips which are forcing competition, are all good things, and there’s more. Apple is overpriced, molds the market, fights against being a monopoly, takes advantage of international supply chains and people, that’s where they deserve the most criticism rather than their engineering specifically which has caused a bunch of really good tech things, not perfect, and not binary
Well, it used to be a brilliant innovation by Macromedia.
Point: early_to_risa.
Newgrounds still works. They’ve adapted
To those asking “who celebrated”…Linux was not always well supported by Flash. The promise of HTML5, with first class Linux support, was very appealing.
https://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/flash-installer-confusion.html
Celebrated? That’s not how I remember it at all. From what I recall, everyone pretty much immediately understood what was about to be lost and mourned it when it was gone. There was a huge effort to archive all the flash content people could find, so many people obviously felt flash content was worth preserving. I’ve got a flash emulator that natively has pretty much every flash game and animation I remember from when I was a kid. I might have to boot it up for a bit tonight for old time’s sake.
https://ruffle.rs/ webasm OSS impl of flash. But yeah the world has changed in a less fun way. At least many of those flash game devs became game devs for pay
I honestly miss those flash games. Like I’d spend hours upon hours scrolling through websites like bored.com playing all kinds of games. I could play any game in any genre and have a great time.
I miss those times. Maybe I miss them because they remind me of my youth but they were amazing either way.
