nostalgia has made these crap games great. they never were good in the first place. you had a good laugh as a 12 year old at tech class, but thats it.
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Plenty of mobile games are clones of free Flash games with added monetization.
For example Angry Birds is just Crush the Castle.
Noe, I'm not going to argue that these mobile games are good, but they're shitty because of their monetization schemes. As free flash games that were short enough to not overstay their welcome they were fine.
Add to that there being a few flash games that were genuine attempts at art. Which I think are valuable if for no other reason than to see the history of indie games.
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Gen X misses Flash, too. My Geocities page featured a beat maker with samples you could trigger to make cool drum and bass with.
There's still games, and the old ones aren't dead because the people in middle and high school are still playing them at school, just using flash emulators or html5 versions. People play run 3,slope, Henry stickmin, old version of 1v1 lol without micro transactions, etc.
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If Anon misses flash, Anon should look into Flashpoint and Ruffle.
What's Plant's vs Zombies doing there? That was a post-iPhone game
That was a flash game if I remember correctly. It was just ported to everything
I hate shit like this. Fym we celebrated it's downfall?? Excuse you?? I was not happy about it.
I tried to become a flash developer back then 😞
I was working as a flash developer when they killed it. I was definitely not on board haha. I had to pivot my whole career but I learned such a valuable lesson.
Flash was the tool that really made programming click for me. It was easy to pick up but hard to master and I spent so much time learning how to write all kinds of code patterns
Fancy Pants, Falling Sand, various stick fighting games, Whack Your Boss, moto trials games, Punk-O-Matic, Line Rider, etc etc
Gooooood times
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one of the fastest way to get computer AIDS. But yeah, we alla missed it
The last line I don't remember being true. Pretty much everybody were pissed that flash was canceled. I sure as shit was. Still go to ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ to play his old flash games. He managed to make them work again after flash was discontinued. I was so happy because I love his games and their atmosphere.
Also loved the Bitey animations with the little pan who runs around being a total asshole to animals in this weird fantasy world.
I dunno why this anon thinks that millennials were celebrating the downfall of flash. We really didn't. We just didn't have any power to save it.
There are a shitload of free in browser and not games on itch. Anon OP is just a fucking lemming who thinks they have to pay $80 for the latest COD.
Fuck even some.AAA shit like Overwatch and Fortnite are free.
There are plenty of other places to play games online still, Like Pico-8
Making things is Godot actually feels a lot like making Flash games used to
Even more annoying is when some of those games were garbage but they ended up being turned into phone microtransaction hell or overpriced Steam games anyway.
I don't know if people working at Artix are passionate, but I definitely wouldn't call their games 'free with no microtransactions'.