![]() ![]() But not all Flash game creators have the time, energy, or know-how to accomplish this. Blue Maxima emphasizes that it’d remove any games at creators’ request, but given that it still has some 36,000 games in its directory, I doubt very many creators make that request. This feels especially important for the urgency of it: Flash is set to die at the end of this year, and Adobe has been openly encouraging everyone to migrate anything they’ve made with Flash to new formats. Blue Maxima’s works echoes the likes of the Internet Archive and the Ruffle Flash emulator, maintaining this history of lesser-known games, lest they slip through the internet’s proverbial cracks. The site, called Flashpoint, is run by Blue Maxima, and essentially preserves many older bits of gaming ephemera for the users to play. If you know me at all, you know I’m a big fan of game preservation for the sake of historical record, if not always for the games themselves. Adobe revealed in 2017 it would no longer be supporting Flash by the end of this year– which leaves the many stray Flash games out there (and those who play them) high and dry, right? There’s actually a site dedicated to not just saving those Flash games, but offering them for offline play. ![]()
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