Gregory's ServerIt's come up a few times in the past couple days, but did you know that there's a Flash player that runs in WASM, making it easier to preserve and play old Flash games directly in your browser?
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 @zkat Isn't it? Like so many old and wonderful games are just stuck in Flash and only Flash... a complete preservation nightmare. I hated the Flash plugin, but damned if it didn't go away in the worst way possible. @xgranade newgrounds and albinoblacksheep were absolute highlights of my teenage years @zkat I never got into the latter, but damned if the former didn't consume way waaaaaaay waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many hours. @xgranade @zkat I'm in the middle of a ruffle powered nostalgic playthrough of Manufactoria here https://www.kongregate.com/games/PleasingFungus/manufactoria  @xgranade @whitequark We’ve gone full circle. Everything old is new again. This is making me wonder if I should get my copies of Flash 5 and CS6 fired up again and dust off those Actionscript 2 and 3 gamedev skills. 🤔 @ktnjared @whitequark I mean, preservation efforts are "everything old is new again" by necessity. Getting old Flash games working on modern browsers is a fairly important part of cultural preservation, to be sure. I am amused at the suggestion, though, of making new Flash games with the intent of targeting Ruffle...! |
(And yes, it's written in Rust, in no small part because that makes it much easier to target WebAssembly and run directly in browsers without a plugin.)