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Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by firefax »

waltbosz wrote: post #9
firefax wrote: post #4

Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers. I can't find anything documenting that saga -- in fact, it looks like a lot of the early content from before the "auto portal" an early precursor to video portal like Youtube -- called such because for a spell you had to email Tom your work to be featured in the "portal"…

I remember reading an article about how Newgrounds was contacted by the BBC around the time the Teletubbies game was published and they thought they were in trouble for the Teletubbies game, but actually the email was about interviewing them about the success of their Club a Baby Seal game.

There was absolutely a brief legal threat paired with a comedic "fuck you we have fair use" page up on their site at one point.

I don't think they'd be talking about fair use if they were just being interviewed about how mean they allegedly were.

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by Animats »

Aw. They dropped all the adult games, though.

They seem to be using Ruffle, the Flash emulator written in Rust which runs in WebAssembly.

(Flash was a good product in its day. Perhaps better than HTML/CSS/Javascript.)

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by praptak »

Animats wrote: post #14

Aw. They dropped all the adult games, though. They seem to be using Ruffle, the Flash emulator written in Rust which runs in WebAssembly. (Flash was a good product in its day. Perhaps better than HTML/CSS/Javascript.)

It was both better and worse. Much better in that every kid could create interactive web stuff. Much worse because of the reasons the plugin got finally dropped from everywhere (after which the advertisers found other ways to abuse our browsers).

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by ethan_smith »

cobbzilla wrote: post #2

Flash is now the retro gaming console of web 1.0

And like retro consoles, Flash has a thriving preservation community with projects like Ruffle, Flashpoint, and the Internet Archive's Flash collection ensuring this cultural heritage remains playable despite the original technology being obsolete.

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by riffraff »

seneca wrote: post #10

Perhaps some kind of Mandela effect, but I would have adamantly sworn I remember newgrounds shutting down. My friends and I spent many hours playing games on NG and screwing around with flash. Feels like a completely different world at this point. Glad they're still around, and I love that they're running events like this to remember the good old days.

Same here, I was sure it had shut down. I'm glad I was wrong.

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by mattigames »

A fantasy of mine is to develop a fork of Unity but with an editor interface exactly like Flash, that transpiles Actionscript code to Unity's C#, or maybe a subset of typescript would be a better compromise given it's popularity (either by transpiling or by using node/deno bindings to Unity's Api), to truly make unity games as easy to make as flash games used to be, and with the option to export the project to real Unity in case you need to do something more advanced.
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