4 ms·

I saw somewhere "As a frontend developer, I cannot be happier that the Flash is going to die. As a person raised on Newgrounds, there are tears of nostalgia."

by stared 7y ago

I saw somewhere "As a frontend developer, I cannot be happier that the Flash is going to die. As a person raised on Newgrounds, there are tears of nostalgia." Speaking of Flash, I miss the most this game... or rather, meme-focused experience (IMHO it is a true masterpiece): "Reimagine :The Game:" by Nicky Case: (https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/569281 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/569281, video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG1gh5l1YLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG1gh5l1YLM). Two other things I really liked were ported by their developer: GemCraft (turret defense) and Velocity Raptor (a special relativity game, https://testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html https://testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html). And you, what do like the most to see back?

mr-ron 7y ago
Well I never played these games before, what I miss the most is exactly that. A plethora of games that had no monetary reason to make them. Simply because it was possible for a solo non-skilled person to put a inspired idea in Flash in a relatively quick amount of time. I don't think we have any equivalent in the web today
- dwild 7y ago
  > A plethora of games that had no monetary reason to make them. I don't know for Newgrounds but actually many website paid quite a bit of money to sponsor games. Gemcraft for example was sponsored by Armor Games and I believe they were in the 10k ranges. The ECPM was also not bad, I believe some were able to reach 10$ because of video ads. MochiAds, which was one of the most used ads provider also had a distribution platform which was quite useful. Once I made a game during a boring math class, I was able to get 500k views out of it (sadly mostly from China which had an ecpm of like 0.01$, it wasn't a market that MochiMedia was developing much for ads, they tried later on but Flash killed them before they were able to increase it enough). I made a bit over 100$ over that game made in an few hours. I was able to reproduce the experiment a second time, with similar result, less views, 300k I think, but much more in the US, a bit under 100$ that time. I was hoping that Unity would bring that back, because they came during the crash of Flash, but while they still push toward faster development, they were going toward a different market.
  - zyx321 7y ago
    IIRC, Tom Fulp paid hosting out of his own pocket for a long time, but eventually he started turning a profit and paying out cash prizes for well-received flashes. Also, including your own monetization was always allowed. Ads on the loading screen were the most popular, but some later games even included micro transactions.
- mey 7y ago
  Take a look over at itch.io
- Bjartr 7y ago
  There's some of that on itch.io, there's just also plenty of paid stuff there too.
deleted 7y ago
[deleted]
slantyyz 7y ago
I was never really into Flash games, but I loved Ferry Halim's Orisinal stuff [1] They were very simple games, with beautiful art. [1] https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisinal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisinal

by stared 7y ago

mr-ron 7y ago

Well I never played these games before, what I miss the most is exactly that. A plethora of games that had no monetary reason to make them. Simply because it was possible for a solo non-skilled person to put a inspired idea in Flash in a relatively quick amount of time. I don't think we have any equivalent in the web today

dwild 7y ago
> A plethora of games that had no monetary reason to make them. I don't know for Newgrounds but actually many website paid quite a bit of money to sponsor games. Gemcraft for example was sponsored by Armor Games and I believe they were in the 10k ranges. The ECPM was also not bad, I believe some were able to reach 10$ because of video ads. MochiAds, which was one of the most used ads provider also had a distribution platform which was quite useful. Once I made a game during a boring math class, I was able to get 500k views out of it (sadly mostly from China which had an ecpm of like 0.01$, it wasn't a market that MochiMedia was developing much for ads, they tried later on but Flash killed them before they were able to increase it enough). I made a bit over 100$ over that game made in an few hours. I was able to reproduce the experiment a second time, with similar result, less views, 300k I think, but much more in the US, a bit under 100$ that time. I was hoping that Unity would bring that back, because they came during the crash of Flash, but while they still push toward faster development, they were going toward a different market.
- zyx321 7y ago
  IIRC, Tom Fulp paid hosting out of his own pocket for a long time, but eventually he started turning a profit and paying out cash prizes for well-received flashes. Also, including your own monetization was always allowed. Ads on the loading screen were the most popular, but some later games even included micro transactions.
mey 7y ago
Take a look over at itch.io
Bjartr 7y ago
There's some of that on itch.io, there's just also plenty of paid stuff there too.

deleted 7y ago

[deleted]

slantyyz 7y ago

I was never really into Flash games, but I loved Ferry Halim's Orisinal stuff [1] They were very simple games, with beautiful art. [1] https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisinal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisinal