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important note before reading: I used horrible phrasing in the headline. I was caught up in my own circle's thought process when I said "flash games died a horrible death". What I meant was the cultural aspect behind them - I don't mean that flash games are dead, because they can easily still be played. Coming off of the conversations I've been having, I had this context in mind when I wrote the headline, and I can see how it could be misconstrued. Anyone saying flash games are actually dead though, is simply incorrect.

I'm playing Serious Sam Kamikaze, and this reminds me of those old flash games... and this is obviously made by Croteam in Croatia.

Anyone know anything about this? I recall seeing something in a lot of those flash games that mentioned New Zealand and Eastern Europe a lot, but it would be way too hard to go back and pull up all that info. I can do my best to gather what I can from my old flash game archive

site note about commenters:

these two tards think flash is completely dead and unplayable and they're parroting the pseudointellectual line of "there are security flaws and security is important" without being able to name a single security flaw adobe flash has ever had. They probably don't even know exactly what sort of thing is bad to be called a security flaw these days I have only met a single person ever to have correctly responded to this; people who were spouting on and on about security is important and security updates blah blah blah, that is.

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important note before reading: I used horrible phrasing in the headline. I was caught up in my own circle's thought process when I said "flash games died a horrible death". What I meant was the cultural aspect behind them - I don't mean that flash games are dead, because they can easily still be played. Coming off of the conversations I've been having, I had this context in mind when I wrote the headline, and I can see how it could be misconstrued. Anyone saying flash games are actually dead though, is simply incorrect. I'm playing Serious Sam Kamikaze, and this reminds me of those old flash games... and this is obviously made by Croteam in Croatia. Anyone know anything about this? I recall seeing something in a lot of those flash games that mentioned New Zealand and Eastern Europe a lot, but it would be way too hard to go back and pull up all that info. I can do my best to gather what I can from my old flash game archive site note about commenters: these two tards think flash is completely dead and unplayable and they're parroting the pseudointellectual line of "there are security flaws and security is important" without being able to name a single security flaw adobe flash has ever had. They probably don't even know exactly what sort of thing is bad to be called a security flaw these days I have only met a single person ever to have correctly responded to this; people who were spouting on and on about security is important and security updates blah blah blah, that is. @v0atmage 3 pts (+3|-0) 41 min ago >[Flash died a horrible death because it was a shit technology ridden with performance and security problems. The programming language was low tier trash that made JavaScript feel well designed.](https://poal.co/s/Gaming/295645/5468c761-6551-49df-830d-213b09ba5d17#cmnts) @Ghetto_Shitlord Suspicious Behavior 0 pt (+0|-0) 23 min ago >[Any web flash content you try to run redirects to adobe's page here where they declare it EOL. >Flash EOL >Search "flash security flaws." They've patched hundreds of holes over the years.](https://poal.co/s/Gaming/295645/b6a37cb9-d89b-4e28-b74e-56b5f2b62a6a#cmnts)

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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/finally-end-adobe-flash/#:~:text=Flash%20must%20be%20viewed%20and,to%20fully%20eradicate%20the%20software.

for starters.

Why did you post this?

and yes i'm aware of fag boy steve jobs bitching about flash. I was there when it all started.

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y u do this

muh gamez n nostalgia n shieeet

It was a proprietary standard with a monopoly through a shitty, closed-source implementation, it's like asking why Internet Explorer faded into irrelevance.

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not sure what you're responding to, but it in no way affects the point i'm making in the OP, and open source <anything> did not replace what existed with flash.

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in no way affects the point i'm making in the OP

It has everything to do with it, the shitty platform died.

and open source <anything> did not replace what existed with flash.

Open standards with open source implementations did replace anything relevant, Flash video was replaced by WebM, advanced graphics was replaced by WebGL, more complex web UIs were made possible thanks to faster Javascript engines (also open source) and CSS, vector-based graphics was replaced by SVG, etc.

Flash games were replaced by Android and iPhone apps, the security for these is managed a lot better than it ever was for Flash. It being a closed standard was a major issue, I bet Steve Jobs tried to negotiate before giving up on it entirely, all that investment in open standards wasn't cheap either.