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Re: Flash Museum

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Post by djha-skin » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:26 PM UTC

Someone _please_ put Super Mario Brothers Crossover on this website so I can play it again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._Crossover

Re: Flash Museum

#52

Post by simlevesque » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:37 PM UTC

hnbear wrote: post #32

About 15 years ago there was a cute flash game where you had a little cube world that was a puzzle to grow into a bigger fancier environment by clicking on trigger points in the correct order. I have no idea what it was called, and can’t describe it well enough to search for it if it still exists. Every couple of years I try. Resources like this give me hope that little gems and works of art from the past will live o…

This one is a classic !

Re: Flash Museum

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Post by geraldcombs » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:48 PM UTC

In the early aughts it was fashionable for web sites to have elaborate "intro" pages, usually animated using flash. They were so ubiquitous and annoying that someone created a parody at skipintro.com. Does anyone know if the skipintro animation can viewed anywhere today? It looks like the Wayback Machine has snapshots archived, but trying to load it returns an error.

Re: Flash Museum

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Post by bonestamp2 » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:51 PM UTC

milesvp wrote: post #35

krapp wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Lots of people purport to miss developing in ActionScript, so why isn't this path more popular? Every popular game engine will export to HTML5/Webassembly now, there's really no need to keep Flash alive just for the sake of nostalgia.

I think you may underestimate how approachable flash was to non devs. There is something about an animation engine that triggers code on a given frame that upends how most devs think about code. The main reason to keep it around is I’m not sure there’s anything else like it. Hypercard I understand was close. That said, part of what made flash approachable was also the ecosystem and the world in general. I don’t expec…

Ya, it's not that we want to keep flash alive, it's that we want a similar approach to building web content. Unity has some similarities, but it's much more complex to do basic things.

Re: Flash Museum

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Post by Grom_PE » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:54 PM UTC

I get "Something went wrong :(" because flashmuseum.s3.amazonaws.com requires Referer HTTP header to be set, but I actually like this as error details shows me the link to .swf file to use in a standalone Flash player.

Re: Flash Museum

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Post by m463 » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 10:14 PM UTC

what happened to:

- the hamster dance

- peanut butter jelly time

EDIT: https://archive.org/details/peanut-butter-jelly-time

Re: Flash Museum

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Post by andai » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 10:50 PM UTC

hnbear wrote: post #32

About 15 years ago there was a cute flash game where you had a little cube world that was a puzzle to grow into a bigger fancier environment by clicking on trigger points in the correct order. I have no idea what it was called, and can’t describe it well enough to search for it if it still exists. Every couple of years I try. Resources like this give me hope that little gems and works of art from the past will live o…

I played this game back in the day! Thanks for reminding me.

The author seems to be in poor health and in need of financial support: https://www.eyezmaze.com/sp/2020/12/onlineSupport.html

Re: Flash Museum

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Post by Throwthrowbob » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 11:27 PM UTC

hnbear wrote: post #32

About 15 years ago there was a cute flash game where you had a little cube world that was a puzzle to grow into a bigger fancier environment by clicking on trigger points in the correct order. I have no idea what it was called, and can’t describe it well enough to search for it if it still exists. Every couple of years I try. Resources like this give me hope that little gems and works of art from the past will live o…

Interesting, I found it here previously, but it appears to have disappeared from this site (hence archive link): https://web.archive.org/web/20211222213700/https://www.gamed...

Re: Flash Museum

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Post by dusted » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 11:45 PM UTC

If only there was some way of bringing this technology to the browser, like a plugin or something..

Re: Flash Museum

#60

Post by Bakingpotato » Sat, Jul 29, 2023, 12:37 AM UTC

rezonant wrote: post #27

a13o wrote: post #7

Holy moly, honored to see my game Bloody Fun Day in their hall of fame. Unfortunately there seems to be some bugs in their player, the RNG isn't working so all the cuties spawn the same color. I also wonder if these newer html5 flash players are able to spoof the domain, so all these games can bypass their site locks. which was the style at the time...

A relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/325 Seems like being able to override was the plan, but not clear it was actually done?

you can spoof URLs on the Ruffle desktop player, but not using the extension