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  • Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
  • Celebrate Flash games old and new, by Wishlisting GORGON SHIELD!
    Steam ► store.steampowered.com/app/24...
    More and more Flash games are playable in-browser every day. The vast majority of the classics you grew up with are now working without issue! Please consider checking out Ruffle if you want to support these preservation efforts.
    ruffle.rs/
    And check out all the wonderful Flash Forward 2024 entries over on Newgrounds
    www.newgrounds.com/collection...
    My previous videos on the subject:
    Flash game preservation ► • Flash Game Preservatio...
    The 1st Flash Forward Jam ► • Proving Flash Games ar...
    00:00 Flash is BACK!
    00:55 Ruffle Emulation
    03:39 Gorgon Shield
    04:38 Flash Forward
    05:04 Honorable Mentions
    07:40 My Personal Top 10
    16:55 Official Winner
    17:42 Closing Thoughts
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    Let's Play channel ► / graemegames
    Support me on Patreon ► / 2leftthumbs
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Комментарии • 997

  • @2leftthumbs
    @2leftthumbs  Месяц назад +409

    Shoutout to all the Swords and Sandals fans out there! Please be sure to Wishlist Oliver's newest game, GORGON SHIELD!!
    There's also a free Demo ► store.steampowered.com/app/2446920/Gorgon_Shield/

    • @Lou-yf1jo
      @Lou-yf1jo Месяц назад +4

      flash never died

    • @gmdFrame
      @gmdFrame Месяц назад +1

      I love waterflame songs!

    • @greyghost2492
      @greyghost2492 Месяц назад

      What is the name of the first background music you used in this video? I'd been looking for it for ages now

    • @pktrainerpk5supersus459
      @pktrainerpk5supersus459 28 дней назад +1

      use , to get 2500 agility spend points dont go over 400 strenght your golden

    • @LunarTFM
      @LunarTFM 27 дней назад +2

      Swords And Sandals was my childhood

  • @stickman207
    @stickman207 Месяц назад +3632

    "Good News! We are not going to die! We are going to live forever"

    • @Mr..Square
      @Mr..Square Месяц назад +517

      "I didnt say that, i just said were not filled with tumors"

    • @Nik1_
      @Nik1_ Месяц назад +147

      This couldn't have been more perfect date of writing this comment than ever.

    • @gwainexe9065
      @gwainexe9065 Месяц назад +136

      So we're fine, as long as no one shuts down the internet.

    • @jurtheorc8117
      @jurtheorc8117 Месяц назад +75

      @@gwainexe9065 Question.

    • @ArtemisAYO
      @ArtemisAYO Месяц назад +17

      ​@@gwainexe9065DR ADAMS, GO!

  • @BiggusWeeabus
    @BiggusWeeabus Месяц назад +3065

    Adobe: I Thought You were dead
    Flash: My death was... Greatly exaggerated

    • @timsievers2067
      @timsievers2067 Месяц назад +84

      They never killed it, just put it into protective services. It's now named "Adobe Animate".

    • @mauro27279
      @mauro27279 Месяц назад +52

      ​@@timsievers2067
      I think they meant like flash games and other things besides animations

    • @weldingofisaac
      @weldingofisaac Месяц назад +16

      Well memed my friend. Reddit Gold goes out to you. Upvoted.

    • @timsievers2067
      @timsievers2067 Месяц назад

      @@mauro27279 The SWF file will still be played if you can download it. But yeah, the hosted scene suffered a blow when they dropped support. Ironically, anyone who adopted Microsoft Silverlight is up a creek without a paddle. Microsoft even got sites like softopedia to drop their copies.

    • @Argumentium
      @Argumentium Месяц назад +10

      @@timsievers2067 Yeah, but the Web Player itself absolutely was killed. Not a problem now that Ruffle's here though.

  • @castlewhite1577
    @castlewhite1577 Месяц назад +1913

    Losing Flash games felt like losing a part of the internet for me. I always played them when I was a kid since we couldn't afford shit and when I finally got my laptop there's no flash games anymore. So it's great to see them back again

    • @V0IDWARE
      @V0IDWARE Месяц назад +45

      Had flash not existed, i wouldnt be introduced to lots of other franchises.

    • @sujimatsubackupaccount194
      @sujimatsubackupaccount194 Месяц назад

      You could always convert flash .swif files to ex to play them on windows offline. Anyone crying flash games died are either miss informed, didnt do basic research, ot failed to realize you could convert the games with a few clicks. People are just really stupid.

    • @thedayzgod
      @thedayzgod Месяц назад +2

      fr

    • @Josuh
      @Josuh Месяц назад +20

      I feel so sad for every single ipad kid out there growing up without Fancy Pants

    • @Gamerguy826
      @Gamerguy826 Месяц назад +7

      Which is even better news for me considering I want to go hard into things like engineering and computer science and whatnot and I would LOVE to make my own Flash game someday. Any advice? Any ideas? I'm all ears. 👂
      I even know a little bit of coding considering I know how to use Stable Diffusion, so I think I'm off to a great start already. 👍

  • @champagnesupernova1839
    @champagnesupernova1839 Месяц назад +651

    open-source community-led emulation has always been the leading force in game preservation. I'm glad to see it bring flash back into the fold as well.

    • @qchtohere8636
      @qchtohere8636 Месяц назад +35

      I'd dare to say not only for preservation, but also on real gaming innovation.
      Seriously, Proton in the Steam Deck showing the world how crappy process management, resource allocation and power handling under Windows really is should be proof enough.
      Besides that, OSS emulators already catched up with modern non-x86-based consoles in terms of performance is another example of its effectiveness.
      Now, Ruffle is just a cherry on top.
      So seriously, the sooner OSS is adopted as the gold-standard for software, the sooner we can start leaving bloated, useless, redundant and compromised systems behind.

    • @champagnesupernova1839
      @champagnesupernova1839 Месяц назад +12

      @@qchtohere8636 you're absolutely right tbh

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 Месяц назад

      @@qchtohere8636 Makes sense to me, sheer number of man hours spent means an OSS is going to dwarf what any company or government can pour into working on something.

    • @-bruhfunny-
      @-bruhfunny- Месяц назад

      ugh

    • @JSSMVCJR2.1
      @JSSMVCJR2.1 16 дней назад

      ​@@qchtohere8636 so we should hail our communist Linux penguin overlords, then...

  • @NotPhantomArcade
    @NotPhantomArcade Месяц назад +430

    Adobe: Flash will be canceled in 2020-
    Everyone: N o.

    • @ThuNguyen-nc3sb
      @ThuNguyen-nc3sb Месяц назад

      More like ''No, fuck off"

    •  Месяц назад +16

      "I disagree."

    • @zcreates6988
      @zcreates6988 Месяц назад +10

      "How about *N O*"

    • @NayrAnur
      @NayrAnur 28 дней назад

      Sonny from I, Robot.

    • @FunniBSSFan
      @FunniBSSFan 23 дня назад +3

      "Nope. Don't even try"

  • @poweroffriendship2.0
    @poweroffriendship2.0 Месяц назад +621

    Playing Flash games is the most magical moments to experience when it comes to surfing the web, so taking away the Flash Player is like leaving a hole in the Internet's heart for me (sure, Flashpoint and Y8 Browser restored the old games as a relic of the past). So, seeing the Flash Player now making a comeback is the kind of good news that I am glad to hear. It's time to put the missing piece back to where it belongs.

    • @catkook543
      @catkook543 Месяц назад +3

      it is truely amazing

    • @dreaming-
      @dreaming- Месяц назад

      @@catkook543 every sploder game is on flashpoint

    • @catkook543
      @catkook543 Месяц назад

      @@dreaming- Oh really?
      in that case, thats exciting news

  • @Emrox
    @Emrox Месяц назад +166

    Dwarf Planet One dev here. Thanks for the kind words, Graeme!
    While I didn't mention it in the description, Mosa Lina was indeed an influence! In fact, the choice to make the background an abstract pattern instead of a "realistic" space background was directly lifted from ML, and I'm pretty sure the design of the guy was an unconscious copy as well.
    Anyway, glad you liked it so much! I went out of my way to make it the sort of game that could only have been made in Flash - aesthetically, but also technically. To see there's still people out there who appreciate that kind of thing warms my heart.

    • @phasein5413
      @phasein5413 19 дней назад +1

      Thanks mate. Well done, and appreciated :)

    • @johnbash-on-ger
      @johnbash-on-ger 18 дней назад

      Have you considered porting your old Flash games to the newer html5 technologies?

    • @AlvinKazu
      @AlvinKazu 17 дней назад +1

      Congrats to you on your accomplishment.

    • @evangold4748
      @evangold4748 17 дней назад +2

      If you ever release the game to a platform with monetary interactions (steam, or similar) i’d pay good money for such a unique and interesting puzzle game!

  • @potentiallyunfunnyguy9716
    @potentiallyunfunnyguy9716 Месяц назад +128

    we have a saying in the netherlands, called 'Roeien met de riemen die je hebt', translated it means 'rowing with the oars you have'. It essentially means doing the utmost with the tools you have available. Flash game devs are a testament to the positive side of that proverb. How, with a tool with clear limits you can unleash so much creativity.

    • @user-xe9sg1wg7t
      @user-xe9sg1wg7t Месяц назад +8

      TIL the Netherlanders have a phrase that has been a guiding ethic for my life. Thank you for this gift of knowledge, kind stranger: May you have many more upvotes!
      Edit: I grew up with Flash Games, and loved them for that same reason. They were my first Programming experience, and to say I'm glad they've returned is an understatement.

    • @jervistetchMadHater
      @jervistetchMadHater Месяц назад +1

      Gekolonizeerd !

    • @mmmmmmmmmmm10
      @mmmmmmmmmmm10 20 дней назад +4

      ​@@user-xe9sg1wg7t"play the hand you are dealt", "bird in the hand is worth two in the bush", we have similiar sayings

  • @proto_117
    @proto_117 Месяц назад +491

    Maybe that lost spore game can be found

    • @ajxx9987
      @ajxx9987 Месяц назад +7

      Which one

    • @proto_117
      @proto_117 Месяц назад +73

      @ajxx9987 I think it was a creature creator game that couldn't be played because of the swf file. Something like that idk

    • @kingmalik9563
      @kingmalik9563 Месяц назад +8

      It’s on steam

    • @timeryar
      @timeryar Месяц назад +63

      ​@@kingmalik9563brother i dont think hes talking about the one made by EA

    • @mineturtle2
      @mineturtle2 Месяц назад +5

      Maybe that game where you own a gas station with yellow cars crashing into eachother

  • @vanishingllama7342
    @vanishingllama7342 Месяц назад +515

    WE'RE BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @Lazy1700s
      @Lazy1700s Месяц назад +1

      We never left we always come back

    • @Lazy1700s
      @Lazy1700s Месяц назад

      We never left we always come back

    • @Lazy1700s
      @Lazy1700s Месяц назад +2

      We never left our death was merely a facade

    • @Walter-The-Cat
      @Walter-The-Cat Месяц назад +4

      @@Lazy1700swhat did you say?

    • @versinick69
      @versinick69 Месяц назад +3

      ​@@Walter-The-Cati couldn't hear him either

  • @azzaamnasir5819
    @azzaamnasir5819 Месяц назад +114

    The miragine war background music at the start sent me BACK. Flash games was one of the things that made gaming fun for me. Just playing random games, it was so fun. I mean I still actively play stuff on flashpoint, but the feeling of just stumbling on a good game while going through a random game website was so fun. I doubt flash will ever go back to it's former glory, but man, those were some fun times

  • @Pokejirafan2004
    @Pokejirafan2004 Месяц назад +91

    Internet: I thought you were dead!
    Flash: heh, only in a flash.

    • @YoungMrBlue
      @YoungMrBlue Месяц назад +5

      **insert Megamind meme quote**

  • @Kritzomega
    @Kritzomega Месяц назад +267

    Adoble flash was so good, that heaven itself didn't managed to handle it's power, to the point where they brought it back to us

    • @Wzeyisbacklmao
      @Wzeyisbacklmao Месяц назад +5

      Flashs death was probably a blessing in disguise then

    • @TaurusTheCrazyBull
      @TaurusTheCrazyBull Месяц назад +6

      God tried to take Flash, Tank Man then proceeded to crash his tank on top of God and drive away with Flash back to the land of the living

    • @sinnombre__
      @sinnombre__ 21 день назад +2

      by that rule, is Ruffle the Messiah?

    • @JSSMVCJR2.1
      @JSSMVCJR2.1 16 дней назад

      @@sinnombre__ New Flash Testament

  • @ultra54
    @ultra54 Месяц назад +70

    Like a Phoenix, adobe flash burn into ashes, just to reborn from those ashes and flight once again, in the open sky that is internet.
    I love how adobe flash is being saved, almost all my infancy on internet were flash games, and i love to see that those games aren't gonna die so easily.

    • @aeriumsoft
      @aeriumsoft Месяц назад +4

      same, almost brings a tear to my eye. we eatin good today boys

  • @DriverOfTheBlades2.0
    @DriverOfTheBlades2.0 Месяц назад +68

    I remember pulling up Super smash flash 2 and seeing flash wasn't supported anymore. Thank God ruffle is here

    • @headphonesaxolotl
      @headphonesaxolotl Месяц назад +7

      there's a downloadable version- in fact it's been getting consistent updates for a while

    • @DriverOfTheBlades2.0
      @DriverOfTheBlades2.0 Месяц назад +5

      @@headphonesaxolotl
      I was a dumb ass at that time and only learned to trust downloads now. That's why I didn't download

    • @Marc-rw3dd
      @Marc-rw3dd Месяц назад +1

      ​@@DriverOfTheBlades2.0lol rip

  • @DearFox
    @DearFox Месяц назад +92

    I hope that the community will eventually create its own free editor for animation and creating Flash games :)

    • @catkook543
      @catkook543 Месяц назад +2

      I wonder if any such software exists already

    • @Daniel_VolumeDown
      @Daniel_VolumeDown Месяц назад +3

      I was actually just wondering in what software are these new games created

    • @DearFox
      @DearFox Месяц назад +1

      @@Daniel_VolumeDown Adobe Flash - Adobe Animate ?

    • @Daniel_VolumeDown
      @Daniel_VolumeDown Месяц назад

      @@DearFox well, I never developed game in flash so idk names of popular software to create flash games. But just after posting my comment I looked at wikipedia and it seems that there was number of aplications some from adobe (animate (formery flash professional), flash builder, scout). From what I understand animate was used primarly for animations and flash builder was actual ide?
      If I see correctly, even at the time there were some third party IDE's: FlashDevelop end PowerFlasher FDT and If I see correctly Haxe can be used to compile into SWF.

    • @Wzeyisbacklmao
      @Wzeyisbacklmao Месяц назад

      Many such software are on Wikipedia

  • @lukapetrovic412
    @lukapetrovic412 Месяц назад +39

    I've been playing games on Armor Games since 2018. Since then I've played every new release and countless classics. I was kinda sad when they announced that the games will be deleted, but made my peace with it. The games being brought back up really sparked my interest for these games again

    • @aaron-gz
      @aaron-gz Месяц назад +1

      Oh man aren't those the same that have Crash the Castle? Certified classic

  • @rubye4022
    @rubye4022 Месяц назад +67

    How fitting that Mike Welsh is the one leading the project of Ruffle. Flash games and animations, in so many people's minds including mine, were just intrinsically Newgrounds' bread and butter and what made the site into what it was. While I didn't full on grow up on the site as much as others did (I was too young to be the target audience age by the time the early and late 2000s came and went) I still have good memories here and there.
    This is to all the Newgrounds staff as they've grown older and continued to change alongside the site: Thank you. Thanks for making a site that in it's early days let so many creators express themselves in a way no other platform could, and now having a site where people care and helped in emulating our childhood. You all rock.

  • @Lemerksiscool
    @Lemerksiscool Месяц назад +22

    Im impressed at how much ruffle has improved in such a short time, not only does it run great in more lower end-ish hardware (like chromebooks) but it also has great compatibility

    • @Josuh
      @Josuh Месяц назад +8

      The fact that sometimes it runs better than some of the actual Flash Player executables is wild

    • @generallyunimportant
      @generallyunimportant Месяц назад +4

      @@Josuh i think it's been a known fact for a while that the flash player standalone runs much worse than old browsers with the flash plugin, which is kinda hilarious if you think about it

  • @andreas.2494
    @andreas.2494 Месяц назад +24

    I hope Nitrome makes a comeback, that Flash game website defined my childhood.

    • @burnsaltlegion
      @burnsaltlegion Месяц назад

      Fat cat forever

    • @stavinaircaeruleum2275
      @stavinaircaeruleum2275 Месяц назад +7

      Good shit

    • @drcj725
      @drcj725 Месяц назад +2

      The creator is porting their games to html5

    • @gatunhame
      @gatunhame Месяц назад +5

      I'm pretty sure Matt and gang weren't very sure of where to go next, other than the mobile stuff. I for one hope they continue the Steam route and go on to develop bigger games, they're too talented not to ever give us full-fledged long form games. And of course Flightless one day, people will never shut up about that one lol. But I do agree, I hope the site stays and evolves. Nitrome are literally as magical as Nintendo but indie and with none of the backwardsness

  • @MrSonicTeam
    @MrSonicTeam Месяц назад +63

    To point out that strike force heroes finally made it on steam using unity and honestly, replaying it on a new modern engine filled me so much with joy
    alongside them adding new side content that wasn't there in the original flash release.

    • @saltire_2825
      @saltire_2825 Месяц назад +1

      The strike force heroes series were some of the best flash games to ever come out, so glad they made it to steam.

    • @RenShinomiya121
      @RenShinomiya121 22 дня назад +3

      @@saltire_2825 I really wish Juice-Tin would revisit Raze in the same way SFH did

    • @Faizan29353
      @Faizan29353 17 дней назад +1

      Raze needs to also be back

  • @KolumboNG
    @KolumboNG Месяц назад +17

    thank you so much for playing & talking about windowz xp 2012, very happy to hear you enjoyed it - especially the flash folder

    • @2leftthumbs
      @2leftthumbs  Месяц назад +6

      It was nostalgic in so many ways. I definitely had a soft spot for it! Seeing your Flash dump folder has rekindked my desire to revisit my own 😂😂

  • @tails230
    @tails230 Месяц назад +17

    Thanks to Ruffle, Neopets is saved with over 100 of their games being playable after 3 years!

  • @Barret161
    @Barret161 Месяц назад +50

    I'm only 2 Seconds into the video and going like
    "NO! God please no! NOOOOO!!! We finally had it! Keep punching it!!!!11!1!"
    But I'm glad old games will not be forgotten.

    • @KryptLynx
      @KryptLynx Месяц назад +6

      There never was a replacement in games niche, in all those years. And if there is no new hero, we have no choice but to resurrect the old one.

    • @autumnblaze6267
      @autumnblaze6267 Месяц назад +4

      @@KryptLynx I mean, technically HTML5 (modern JavaScript mostly, it's a bit of a marketing term) has everything you need (Ruffle literally works in the browser by converting SWF / Flash files to HTML5 / JavaScript), but it's possible there's no framework/engine (with some kinda integrated editor cos Flash isn't just ActionScript, it's also the drawing part: you can draw something, click on it to add logic and you're done, while in Flash you need to draw everything in something like GIMP/Photoshop, then point to the image in JS, explicitly render it, add a game loop etc. etc. - with big enough games the difference is minuscule, it's not really harder, just different, but Flash is very handy for quick&dirty little projects/games) that makes creating games as easy

  • @Kule1Toxic
    @Kule1Toxic Месяц назад +47

    My game is in a 2 left thumbs video, My life is now complete.

    • @DrDevGuy
      @DrDevGuy Месяц назад +10

      me too,.,.,.,.

  • @dannmcdan2185
    @dannmcdan2185 Месяц назад +13

    This is just wonderful. I hope kids in the future will also experience the true crateative freedom of flash games and an internet where people together decide what is popular and not some algorithms

  • @parkerraines216
    @parkerraines216 Месяц назад +2

    Welcome back flash games you have been sorely missed

  • @samwenske
    @samwenske Месяц назад +4

    Playing Flash games will always be my childhood

  • @RicSimanePL
    @RicSimanePL Месяц назад +3

    OMG You are right. I made a reverse minesweeper flash game with heavy use of AS3 9 years ago and I can finally play it again :D. Indeed not everything seems to work for example 3D rotation is still not implemented. But it's playable :D

  • @Princess_of_cute
    @Princess_of_cute Месяц назад +2

    Amazing! That could mean, that there could be new flash games from series that had to end because of the ending support.

  • @Lazy1700s
    @Lazy1700s Месяц назад +27

    I should mention that friv (old friv) (my favorite flash site) is BACK WOOOOOOOOOOOO
    BABY
    EDIT
    I'M HAPPY THAT OTHER PEOPLE KNOW FRIV IT WAS MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD SITE

  • @christopherpatrick2393
    @christopherpatrick2393 Месяц назад +51

    All I need now is stick page to finally raise my child properly

    • @ARandomRobloxYouTuberARRY
      @ARandomRobloxYouTuberARRY Месяц назад +2

      try flashpoint, it's like 2.5/2.6 gb worth of storage but it's really useful

    • @Randomshiet-xv4pf
      @Randomshiet-xv4pf Месяц назад +4

      Eh, crazyjay and the other guys dont really care about it anymore since like, 2015

    • @Josuh
      @Josuh Месяц назад +1

      You gotta show your kid the Slush Invaders animation at the very least

  • @InfernoVor
    @InfernoVor 5 дней назад

    Glad this was preserved tbh. I still quite like some old flash games I've played before and went to them occasionally when they came to mind. Flash dying was a sad moment due to all the nostalgia...

  • @siedemnastektrzydziestyszosty
    @siedemnastektrzydziestyszosty Месяц назад +1

    I had a dream of making a flash game, or just a simple browser game since i watched your original video on preserving these games. I wanted to be a part of this great community i believed i missed (even tho i had no way of knowing it prior to that video). I even began work with my friend on a small game, i finally got motivation to begin my BIG DREAM!!! MAKING GAMES!!!
    YES!!! FINALLY!!!
    I GOT A CREATIVE IDEA, A VISION, A PASSION... A!... A!...
    burnout
    ive over done, coding was too much for me, i pushed myself into work even if i didnt want to, i i began procrastinating, it all lead to self hatred and i trashed the hole game...
    For those who care, it was going to be a platformer, the twist was going to be, you could spawn platforms anywhere. Every level would have some sort of twist, one maybe had a limited amount of them, other would let you build slopes and mixed with enemies that make explosions you could turn the game into 2D quake. Lots of ideas... no idea how to code... broken dreams once more... fuck this life.
    I plan on some day posting my concept arts for the game but i need a mental break over all in life... so not yet.

  • @frostytheiceberg1127
    @frostytheiceberg1127 Месяц назад +11

    Oh my GOD i love how you put Glorious Morning as the background music! it's the song used in Age of war and Age of War 2 (although AoW2 uses Glorious Morning II i think)

    • @hustla818
      @hustla818 Месяц назад +2

      Thank you soo much!! I recognized the music right away but couldn't remember the name of the game it was from. I played the crap out of age of war 1 and 2 as a kid and really wanted to find the name again

    • @frostytheiceberg1127
      @frostytheiceberg1127 Месяц назад +1

      @@hustla818 yeah man the music is by Waterflame, he also made "Field of Memories", the song used for Stick War's ambush levels

    • @hustla818
      @hustla818 Месяц назад +1

      @frostytheiceberg1127 thanks for the info. I actually looked up age of war on the Google play store and both 1 and 2 are on there for free

  • @happygal8804
    @happygal8804 Месяц назад +19

    As a kid, I always loved flash games, but now that I'm a recent game developer graduate, I've gotta ask.
    What resources or guides would you recommend someone like me look up for Flash or Ruffle coding, in order to make games?

    • @kenansabic2901
      @kenansabic2901 Месяц назад +3

      I too am interested in this.

    • @tacosatlarge
      @tacosatlarge Месяц назад +1

      ActionScript you mean, it’s a bit of a learning curve but there are tutorials from 2008 that can help. Some people even made tutorials on making Flash games, that run on Flash.

    • @happygal8804
      @happygal8804 Месяц назад

      @@tacosatlarge thanks hun

  • @shadow_keepsake8519
    @shadow_keepsake8519 Месяц назад +2

    Thank goodness I'm tired of not having enough games to play Flash games were my childhood and I'm happy to see this video

  • @Pokesus
    @Pokesus 25 дней назад +1

    Glorious Morning just took all my attention the whole video, all i can do is guess what the guy is saying.
    The song is too epic.

  • @fwjxwkejeckcekfwkj2f3fj3ff5
    @fwjxwkejeckcekfwkj2f3fj3ff5 Месяц назад +12

    WE ARE SO BACK AND NOW I CAN REVISIT MY OLD CHILDHOOD GAMES ONLINE

  • @12DAMDO
    @12DAMDO Месяц назад +6

    aye, Ruffle finally has AS3? nice!

    • @catkook543
      @catkook543 Месяц назад +2

      Ruffle has, and is doing AMAZING work

  • @blackiousilay5641
    @blackiousilay5641 10 дней назад

    I love the "age of war" theme playing in the background - nostalgia at it's peak

  • @beagle_uah
    @beagle_uah 15 дней назад +1

    Newgrounds, Kongregate, and FUCKING DINNERBONE?!? coming together to preserve Flash games is something I never could’ve predicted 5-7 years ago.

    • @beagle_uah
      @beagle_uah 15 дней назад +1

      I should also clarify that I could’ve seen each of these groups working individually on an emulator, but all of these big sites/big programmers coming together is just wonderful

  • @thenewtriosguy
    @thenewtriosguy Месяц назад +10

    1:22 3:10 EPIC BATTLE FANTASY SPOTTED

  • @TheAnchorArmsChad
    @TheAnchorArmsChad Месяц назад +27

    LIKE THE MIGHTY PHOENIX

  • @DjHazardous
    @DjHazardous Месяц назад +2

    *Damn i Hope The Mechanical Commando series works with ruffle*

  • @kerdnerl
    @kerdnerl Месяц назад +1

    1:21 yo i just wanna point out that my friend Pedro showed up for "enhancing and repackaging for steam" but the steam version is 100% a completely different game. I love both of them, but theyre vastly different

  • @TheRealFrozenFire
    @TheRealFrozenFire Месяц назад +12

    We are literally so back

  • @queworldwow6262
    @queworldwow6262 Месяц назад +8

    Huh, I found two four-leafed clovers today, the effect might start working

  • @Rosieownsyou
    @Rosieownsyou Месяц назад +1

    5:11 that guy in a orange shirt and blue pants is Kevin Spencer

  • @bluesapphire170
    @bluesapphire170 25 дней назад +1

    I feel like part of my childhood was restored

  • @epsilonthedragon1249
    @epsilonthedragon1249 Месяц назад +4

    Super nice seeing Flash make a return in any form like this; both the raw games themselves and full on ground-up revivals. Heck, I myself am putting together a ground-up remake of Snailiad, a personal favorite of mine

  • @Wbfuhn
    @Wbfuhn Месяц назад +23

    Adobe ending Flash was possibly due to Adobe wanting to force their new software on their subscription system.
    Unfortunately we'll never get back the many flash animations and games on the discontinued site StickDeath.
    Honestly Adobe should have seen this coming because if they had stopped updating Flash but kept it available then we wouldn't have these other alternative players.
    I'll admit there's a stand alone running executable of Flash player I was only able to find through "adult furry" sites. The downside is that all flash files have to be downloaded, which said site also allows.
    That's pointless now thanks to what is out there now. But at the time there was a desire.

    • @catkook543
      @catkook543 Месяц назад +3

      though adobe isnt the best in pro consumer actions.
      *as far as im aware*, the motivation for cutting flash was more so due to not wanting to keep up with security updates for flash anymore

    • @SuperSmashDolls
      @SuperSmashDolls Месяц назад +5

      Adobe's motivation was cutting costs. They already charged for a subscription on Flash since Creative Cloud was a thing, but that's for their authoring environment - not the player software. Adobe's long term goal was, as far as they had one (Flash platform development was *very* chaotic and nobody was planning anything), for this thing to slowly merge into web standards. That's why AS3 was based on ES4 - a proposed upgrade to JavaScript that didn't pan out, but is basically all of the difference between AS3 and pre-HTML5 JavaScript. When Apple started calling their bluff on security and performance Adobe panicked and started throwing documentation over the wall.
      The problem with this approach is that Flash Player was and is a total and complete mess. I cannot begin to enumerate how many times we've (as in, the Ruffle team) tried implementing what Adobe's official documentation says, only to realize that Flash Player does something different and games break if you follow the spec. Or how much shit is just not documented, or is documented in a bunch of blog posts that don't exist anymore, etc. Nevertheless people figured this out anyway. In fact, it's been figured out multiple times, between Gnash, Shumway, that Google SWF converter, Lightspark, and probably at least one other project I'm forgetting about.
      The *real* anticonsumer bullshit from Adobe is when they tried to charge a revshare for cross-compiled 3D engine code in Flash Player. As far as I can tell Adobe either saw dollar signs or shit their pants from Unity announcing Flash export, and decided they were going to lock out specific combinations of APIs unless you agreed to pay a percentage of your revenue to Adobe. It pissed off the whole community and drove a lot of Flash developers to Unity (who would then, a decade later, shit their pants and decide to charge install fees because time is a flat circle). Adobe rolled it back, but not without being extremely petty and cancelling FP.Next / AS4 development, which would have possibly modernized Flash Player, or at least kept it relevant on desktop for a few more years.

    • @jmaeshawn
      @jmaeshawn 26 дней назад +2

      It had nothing to do with Adobe wanting to make it subscription-based. Flash was (and still is) completely riddled with bugs and exploitable security vulnerabilities. This, in addition to Flash is a huge battery drain on mobile devices, they decided it was no longer worth the time and money spent trying to fix it, so they just killed the entire software. That's why I think bringing it back is a foolish idea. It's it really worth opening your computer up to attack just to play these old browser games?

  • @thedesignerblacksmith5953
    @thedesignerblacksmith5953 4 дня назад

    2:10 I don't remember how, but I paused at that point, and saw the material sniper game. I checked it, and it's truly an amazing game. Nice to be able to see an amazing game from long time ago

  • @RedStar441
    @RedStar441 Месяц назад +2

    Modern publishers are green with envy over how much influence Flash has had on the internet. We will never let it die.

  • @Unknowntrashcan
    @Unknowntrashcan Месяц назад +3

    “NOW, WE ARE ONE, IN EVER LASTING PEACE….” - Radiohead

  • @DeathMetalDerf
    @DeathMetalDerf Месяц назад +5

    This is just about the very best news ever!!!!!

  • @Ket246811
    @Ket246811 10 дней назад

    This is amazing! For us 90’s kids, before there was Steam there were flash games. Free to play, tons of replayability, and loads of options. Such a nostalgic era of gaming 🥰

  • @Arto_forreal
    @Arto_forreal Месяц назад +1

    4:48 damn that family guy game is wild

  • @MillywiggZ
    @MillywiggZ Месяц назад +12

    The biggest problem with Adobe products is that Adobe is in control of their products.

  • @Beefaroni_Bert
    @Beefaroni_Bert Месяц назад +4

    its sad tho that most of the classic neopets games are still lost to time. That was a treasure trove of flash games for younger me and nick/viacom will never ask neopets to bring them back.

  • @NextLevelCode
    @NextLevelCode 19 дней назад

    I used to make stuff with flash way back in the day. I think it really cool these old games are being saved. I don’t think I’ll ever build something new with flash again though. Not when we have great app frameworks or game engines now.

  • @LierPlayz
    @LierPlayz Месяц назад

    :0 it’s wonderful. Well done creator!

  • @Dancingmasking
    @Dancingmasking Месяц назад +4

    is there a way to create flash games?

  • @陸天篤
    @陸天篤 Месяц назад +3

    Html games never felt the same as flash games. This news makes me smile

    • @catkook543
      @catkook543 Месяц назад +2

      there is powder game which i believe was java based
      i thought that was pretty fun when i was younger

    • @drdca8263
      @drdca8263 Месяц назад

      @@catkook543iirc there is an html+js port of powder game 2 available on the same website (I believe by the same developer) .

    • @sporeham1674
      @sporeham1674 Месяц назад +1

      HTML games always felt oddly clunky to me.
      Like, I know its *technically* a better engine and all that, but it feels like its missing SOMETHING

  • @jive238
    @jive238 Месяц назад +1

    I never understood the safety issues with flash but i always just used flash player to play swf files after i downloaded them to play offline. I just never deleted the program, to this day it still bugs me to delete it, wish i could make it stop. Unrelated, a hiccup in my harddrive caused me t lose bunch of flash games and videos and other files i had on it, can't even remember where i found some of those things if i even remember them at all now. Years of me collecting games, pictures, memes and whatnot just gone, sucks man.

  • @Derk_Mage
    @Derk_Mage Месяц назад +1

    Eye’m not ignoring the Age of War music in the background.

  • @Nerdyguy69420
    @Nerdyguy69420 Месяц назад +3

    Flash had a totem of undying, Every year, I play madness combat project nexus on my PC to check on flash, in 2021-2022, the game freezes when you beat a level, 2023 fixed UI and bugs, and 2024 made it actually playable with little to no problems, still UI issues, but it's getting better!
    Anyways finally Gorgon Shield is getting known, Whiskeybarrel and other collabs including you are going to make the best game, no joke, it's amazing.

  • @damsen978
    @damsen978 Месяц назад +3

    Bronies in 2024 be like: "Banned from Equestra" here i come

  • @martinrocket1436
    @martinrocket1436 20 дней назад +1

    Fun fact: The jackbox party pack is technically a flash game.

  • @NiCoNiCoNiCola
    @NiCoNiCoNiCola Месяц назад +1

    As said by The Soundtrack of Strike Force Heroes: A Hero Emerges

  • @Impending_Doom
    @Impending_Doom Месяц назад +3

    man that background music brings back so many memories

  • @dontseemyprofilepic3157
    @dontseemyprofilepic3157 29 дней назад +3

    Hold the phone, Ruffle was an open source flash emulator developed in direct response to the 2020 death of Flash this entire time?!?! I spent the past 3 years thinking it was some weird glitch thing where for some reason Flash just works despite being dead this whole time! Dang... well, speaks volumes to how amazing Ruffle is that I only ever felt it was just an extra loading screen for this long.

  • @MinecrafterPictures
    @MinecrafterPictures Месяц назад +1

    Even if Ruffle isn't a thing, there's always Flashpoint Archive

  • @idonnow2
    @idonnow2 Месяц назад +1

    there's something just beautiful about a 14 year old making flash animations in the style that 14 year olds would nearly 2 decades ago

  • @wikwayer
    @wikwayer Месяц назад +9

    Thank you community for giving the middle finger to adobe

  • @TheMegazonyx
    @TheMegazonyx Месяц назад +4

    Face it...
    We were molded by the flash generation...
    So losing it, was like to lose a piece of your soul, you identity, your roots...
    Safe to say, this brought a tear to my eye...
    Sadly however, there are alot of OG flash entertainment that we will never see again...
    And that, twists my nutsack...

  • @suckerofthingies
    @suckerofthingies 28 дней назад +1

    0:49 finally I can kill fire in the hole

  • @deskmat9874
    @deskmat9874 Месяц назад

    Thank you for using Age of War theme in the background

  • @-inFinity05-
    @-inFinity05- 20 дней назад +1

    As a 2000s kid, this is the best new I’ve ever heard!

  • @BraydenDarrell
    @BraydenDarrell Месяц назад

    THANKS!!! I had no idea this existed before this video!

  • @MrNinjaBanana
    @MrNinjaBanana Месяц назад

    Age of war music was a great touch to the video!

  • @gbyoshi3989
    @gbyoshi3989 Месяц назад +2

    This is wild! hope this will bring flash games back to neopets again. as some of my favorite games don't work as of result.

  • @ajaxgamr4458
    @ajaxgamr4458 Месяц назад

    That dwarf planet one game looks super fun. Definitely would want to play that.

  • @ZanicaKnight
    @ZanicaKnight Месяц назад +2

    Man those last few games were truly amazing

  • @thefanboy3285
    @thefanboy3285 12 дней назад

    My favorite flash games in my childhood were the 👖 Fancy Pants Adventure saga, 🐌 Snail Bob saga, 🦋 Nelly 1 and 2 (the cool gothic game. Though, the 2nd feels like a fever dream for me as I can't seem to find a trace of it anywhere),💡 various enigm based games like escape games, and 🌵 Cactus MacCoy. Oh God do I miss those times.

  • @Cyberbrickmaster1986
    @Cyberbrickmaster1986 Месяц назад

    I'm glad to see that Flash content is being preserved. I just hope that there will be viable ways to play them offline in a offline flash player for emulation purposes. As well as seeing more flash content that has been abandoned get preserved in some fashion, like those old Miniclip games or LEGO browser games. Many of which I couldn't track down in the archives and some I couldn't get working like Stinkoman 20X6 with missing files needed to render levels and cutscenes.
    If this can be resolved with Flashpoint and the like, I will probably look into it, assuming I can still access the files.

    • @thejunecooperative
      @thejunecooperative 19 дней назад

      Flashpoint has been all about archiving stuff so definitely go give it a try if you're looking for something abandoned

    • @Cyberbrickmaster1986
      @Cyberbrickmaster1986 19 дней назад

      @@thejunecooperative Would be nice to play Junkbot offline outside of Flashpoint. I haven't been able to do that since it's powered by Shockwave and cannot be played via a flash player like Clean Flash or Ruffle. Wish I knew what player Flashpoint uses for that particular format.

  • @ramenaddict1676
    @ramenaddict1676 14 дней назад

    I can finally have a reason to fullfill my childhood dream of learnkng how to make flash animations and games!

  • @Slavicplayer251
    @Slavicplayer251 18 дней назад

    playing flash games on a windows 7 on school computer is a memory i’ll always remember

  • @thefiresworddragon927
    @thefiresworddragon927 15 дней назад

    Keep in mind, the reason it took 4 years was because we weren't expecting it to go, and we had over two decades worth of content to sift through. Bloons Tower Defence, flash animations, Sift Heads, Strike Force Heroes, there was a stupendous amount. It was 'the' premier browser option for anything.
    Shocked it took only 4 years.

  • @jessekandres9047
    @jessekandres9047 20 дней назад

    the swords and sandals sound track hits the feels

  • @unduloid
    @unduloid 6 дней назад +1

    I am still disappointed that "Ruffle" was not called "Rash."

  • @adrianmerasanz2625
    @adrianmerasanz2625 19 дней назад

    My childhood was full of flash games i was heartbroken when like with its dead games like
    Dungeon blitz
    And others games
    Dissapearing rlly killed me inside
    this is just a treat for the ppl who played flash games in our childhood

  • @ShadowCatWarrior93
    @ShadowCatWarrior93 Месяц назад

    Jack French was one of my favourites and this makes me hopeful to play it again

  • @demos456
    @demos456 29 дней назад

    ok, the survivalist part reminded me SO much of stickdeath's flash games. Especially one in particular where you had to click on some arrow buttons (dragon's lair style) with the right timing to make the character do some crazy actions. Of course those games were adult games with all the violence, swearing and all that was in there. I have no idea what gave me the idea of going on that website, but being a 90's kid, let's just say that warnings about violence and gore before entering a website didn't stop me from going lol (guess I probably made it easy for viruses to infect our computer...). As a side note, I miss xiaoxiao stick fights animations XD

  • @Emmypinklasagna
    @Emmypinklasagna Месяц назад

    with the game dwarf planet one it reminds me a lot of the franchise the game especially with the gravity mechanic of moving planet to planet and how all you have is a walk forward and backwards button at first

  • @hamishfox
    @hamishfox Месяц назад

    It's crazy to me that this guy makes such great videos and also is the publisher of so many amazing games

  • @danielscomentclub2636
    @danielscomentclub2636 Месяц назад +1

    It's back. I cannot believe it. I genuinely gonna cry

  • @tacosatlarge
    @tacosatlarge Месяц назад

    I knew it would come back via emulators and stuff. Glad to have you back Flash.

  • @CamerTheDragon
    @CamerTheDragon Месяц назад

    Ey yeah, I've been lookin' at how Ruffle is goin' and it's really cool to see it working on more of the games that I played before flash shut down
    Also wow yeah those jam entries are p impressive