This open-source project saved over 36,000 Flash games for the future generation

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I used to create flash animations and upload them to Newgrounds back in the day. It was an awesome learning experience and it taught me a lot about the artistic process. Frame by frame hand drawn animation, nothing beats it. Some people made some pretty impressive stuff.

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As the games will be available for offline use but the Flash games need a proper server to run — Flashpoint uses a combination of three tech programs working in parallel – a web server, a redirector, and a launcher in order to pretend to be the internet.

I think it's cute how the author thinks this is revolutionary and exciting.

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Are you not excited to launch "a web server, a redirector, and a launcher" embeded with each of those state of the art pieces of engineering parked somewhere on your system, through wine? How exciting!... That's like playing casual hide-and-seek-surprise-butt-sex-in-the-dark with fleece johnson back in the 90's!

>Flashpoint launcher doesn’t support anything but Windows just yet. You can either download the Games as you play them or download the full package of size 288GB with 36,000 games.

Jesus christ... Only god knows what's in there...

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Good point.

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If you have the skills to use linux you have the skill to just download the swf and run your own sandboxed webserver and sandboxed browser. Wine is not required and their launcher is for normies only, it's totally not required.

The only problem is access to flash player + older browser, they do provide a kind of flash player plugin that is mostly flash compatible, which again, as a linux user you will know how to sandbox.