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I made 8 flash games back around 2009 that were profitable. Sadly, they’re completely broken now because all of the web services they depend on are gone. Although the main game play is uneffected, it still attempts to load leaderboards and ads, which make them look horrible. :(
Are free-to-play browser games still possible in this day and age? Or has it all moved to mobile?
I saw somewhere "As a frontend developer, I cannot be happier that the Flash is going to die. As a person raised on Newgrounds, there are tears of nostalgia." Speaking of Flash, I miss the most this game... or rather, meme-focused experience (IMHO it is a true masterpiece): "Reimagine :The Game:" by Nicky Case: ( https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/569281 , video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG1gh5l1YLM ). Two…
Well I never played these games before, what I miss the most is exactly that. A plethora of games that had no monetary reason to make them. Simply because it was possible for a solo non-skilled person to put a inspired idea in Flash in a relatively quick amount of time. I don't think we have any equivalent in the web today
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Didn't invite is a silly way of putting it. Jobs went to war with Flash, and at the time Adobe was making progress integrating iOS as publishing targets, and today it would have been a moot point as iOS hardware is surely powerful enough. Creative Cloud is heading to the iPad Pro and it is a real shame that Flash isn't part of that.
> Jobs went to war with Flash He just ignored it. It was redundant on the iPhone, with native apps and the rise of web applications. Completely ignoring something seems like the opposite of 'going to war' with it.
That’s going to war.
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> Jobs went to war with Flash He just ignored it. It was redundant on the iPhone, with native apps and the rise of web applications. Completely ignoring something seems like the opposite of 'going to war' with it.
He took the unusual step of publishing a letter, “Thoughts On Flash” ( https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ ), published under his own name, which said that “Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content.” That’s going to war.
It’s ‘we’re ok without that thanks’ not ‘war’.
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He took the unusual step of publishing a letter, “Thoughts On Flash” ( https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ ), published under his own name, which said that “Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content.” That’s going to war.
These seem like dispassionate technical observations to me? His argument is that it’s obsolete. It’s ‘we’re ok without that thanks’ not ‘war’.
There is more information about it here - in addition to Jobs going after Flash so publicly they added an app store rule specifying which languages developers could use to publish apps, and excluded Flash, after Adobe had made substantial progress publishing native iOS apps from Flash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_and_Adobe_Flash_controve...
I wonder about iOS game preservation, I guess thats going to be a lot harder than old 8-bit games or PC games etc.
I wonder about iOS game preservation, I guess thats going to be a lot harder than old 8-bit games or PC games etc.
It’s already happening, there’s a ton of games that aren’t on the App Store any more because their creators stopped paying a hundred bucks a year. A lot of them won’t work on newer versions of iOS even if you still have a copy.
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You can just partially download the torrent
Not if it's an archived file, which it is in this case.