Hey remember when Flash games used to be a thing?

I've made Flash games as a job since I was in high school, and a new feature in this Unity newsletter looks PRETTY FUCKING INTERESTING.

This game is a Flash game. Regular old .swf, no plug-ins, no weird downloads, you can upload this to Kongregate or Newgrounds or whatever you want. No Adobe products needed, Unity is free, it can export iPhone games, Xbox games, practically anything.

Flash games are, and have been, a big deal business-wise for a few years. When one or two dudes can make a game that works on any machine for free, and get tens of millions of hits, that's no joke.

Cutting it out of phones was one thing but I think Unity has, this year, kicked the shit out of Adobe.

And by the way; BASTION runs in a web browser. You can play that game on a WEBSITE.

Seeing ametuer 3D games pop up here n there this year was pretty nuts (to me, anyway) and I think 2012 is gonna be the year when it all flips over and suddenly Farmville looks like Unreal Tournament or something.

Yea, I remember when they were still relevant. In fact, I wish somebody would start blogging about them, because not all of them are Arise-level crap.

I got 4300 points

I think they are still good. Just not in the lime light anymore.

There are some fun things in there if you can look. and some of them are more interesting then some smaller and lower priced games.

I also think someone ported counterstrike 1.6 using that into a flash game.

@CheapPoison:

I know that you can play Quake LIVE in a browser aswel, but it requires a lot of downloads, so I didn't bring it up.

They became popular and then there was a flood of people looking to either become internet famous or get a foot in the door of the gaming industry. There became so much shit that sifting threw it to find the good games wasn't worth it and people stopped caring.

2flashgames.com holler at me

This is incredible.

ALL YOU CAN UPGRADE IS STRANTH?

Club Penguin!

@Jimbo said:

ALL YOU CAN UPGRADE IS STRANTH?

ALL YOU DO IS PRESS ONE BUT TEN THE ENTIRE TIME

Flash games had DRM and no one complained.

@Moncole: What DRM? You play them for free on anything.

Achaea has a flash client. Does that count? ;)

Maybe its because I'm converting a file in the background but I'm getting about 1FPS on my MacBook.

all the devolpers moved to IOS

@IkariNoTekken said:

@Jimbo said:

ALL YOU CAN UPGRADE IS STRANTH?

ALL YOU DO IS PRESS ONE BUT TEN THE ENTIRE TIME

the only reson im giving this a 1 is beacuase the voices where pretty good

@Vodun said:

@IkariNoTekken said:

@Jimbo said:

ALL YOU CAN UPGRADE IS STRANTH?

ALL YOU DO IS PRESS ONE BUT TEN THE ENTIRE TIME

the only reson im giving this a 1 is beacuase the voices where pretty good

but that's it!

@I_smell: I mean DRM that you have to go on the internet site to play it and hope the internet doesn't go out while its loading

Ok. Well the people who have game sites just steal all their games from other sites anyway.

yeah, i remember. i remember getting my degree and then graduated and finding out that flash isn't good anymore. i say this because iphones and other programs don't have flash anymore.