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When Flash goes away in 2020, what games/animations are you going to miss?

A topic by rickEofC created Sep 05, 2017 Views: 1,377 Replies: 10
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rickEofC7 years ago

I made a similar topic on Reddit and got some responses but I wanted to see what my Itch,io friends think. Flash was a classic tool of the old school web and think about the nostalgia you get playing Fred's Adventure, Crush the Castle, or many others. I know animation can be uploaded to Youtube but is it really the same as the character flash had? So What games/shorts are you guys going to miss and might like to be seen redone in new technology (html5 or an engine)?

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No Time To PlayModerator7 years ago(+1)

Red Rogue immediately springs to mind as a Flash game worth preserving. And if the developer is still around, that shouldn't be a problem, as the Flash IDE already exports to HTML5. But a lot of historical Flash content is old and abandoned, and open source interpreters never came close to replacing the official one.

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rickEofC7 years ago

I unfortunately never got to play it and now I'd need to switch browsers haha. But you know what I'm talking about Flash games, some of them, had such a huge impact on the current indie scene!

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leafoAdmin7 years ago(+1)

I wouldn't be surprised if we have a fully functional SWF runtime that is built in JavaScript in the near future, so I'm not too concerned about things disappearing forever.

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rickEofC7 years ago

See I'm more inclined to say that HTML5 might take on some kind of support for it over JS (maybe both :)  ) but you're right but it still won't feel quite the same but I guess it never can again you know? Everyone is a kid once I'm probably just looking at flash through nostalgia glasses.

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Sysop-Delco7 years ago(+1)
Tools have a tendancy to never really die, so much as become niche. There's already been some chatter about preservation and renewed interest in emulators since the announcement, even a petition for flash to be open sourced. Like leafo said, its probably going to linger for quite some time.
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rickEofC7 years ago

Other good flash games were Pico's School, and most of Tom Fulp's other work which allowed him to continue his dream of making animations/games you know? Cool Stuff.

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Misguided Chicken7 years ago(+2)

I'd be really sad about losing Nitrome... They had some great games.

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rickEofC7 years ago

And sites like Newgrounds, AlbinoBlackSheep, etc. Losing them all would blow! Maybe someday they'll be run in an emulator in browser lol

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Misguided Chicken7 years ago(+1)

I think there are already ongoing efforts to do things like that. :P

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rickEofC7 years ago

I know! And I hope they work out! it would really suck to end up back here after they end of life "their" flash emulator lol

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