I’ll never stop defending the honor of Adobe Flash. Sure the program gave us some security risks and battery-draining video players. But I still don’t think tech people, especially Apple-worshiping tech people, ever gave Flash its due for the endless amount of influential indie early internet art it birthed. Newgrounds! Homestar Runner! The original Frog Fractions!
The war for Flash ended years ago and Flash lost. But even after generous lengthy warnings from Adobe on how support for the platform would end in 2020, not everything has made the jump to HTML5 or whatever. Fortunately, a new preservation project is helping make sure these tens of thousands of games won’t be gone in a flash.
BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint platform preserves over 36,000 abandoned Flash games and counting according to Kotaku. Pulling from across all of online time and space, Flashpoint hosts anything and everything unless a copyright owner complains. It even accepts suggestions from users like you. You can play games on a case by case basis, even offline. Or if you really want to commit, and do your part to make sure these games get saved in some way, you can download the entire collection at nearly 300 GB. That’s a lot of different stickman sniper games.
Many of these games are going to be rough. Especially by 2020 standards. But they still represent important historical context, these anarchic games made for naughty kids messing around on school computers. It’s no surprise that some of our most celebrated modern indie developers have deep roots in Flash. Super Meat Boy is essentially the Citizen Kane of Flash games. So check out Flashpoint to support the art preservation that the games and tech industries shamefully ignore.
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