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What, like some kind of Suicide Cult?

My computer and my data are belong to me. Not to Microsoft. Not to Apple. Not to Google or Oracle or HP or IBM or Samsung. Nobody but me!

Fixed that for you. Reference: http://www.newgrounds.com/port...

Which would need permission from each uploader

Nope. The uploader agreed to Newgrounds' terms of use which allow it. The relevant part from the terms of use, with the relevant term in bold:

However, by submitting the User Submissions to Newgrounds, you hereby grant Newgrounds a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the Newgrounds Website and Newgrounds's (and its successor's) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Newgrounds Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

An HTML5 conversion of Flash content is certainly a derivative work. Newgrounds is also moving into HTML5 content which is good to see. They say, "You may now upload animations in video format (ie MP4) and can upload HTML5 and Unity3D games."

without bloating them by a factor of 10 by rendering them to WebM?

Many of the non-interactive videos can be found on Youtube now

That's what I was trying to avoid.

Similarly, most of the game concepts have been replicated in one way or another to various mobile devices.

Many of the mouse-based ones have. But the keyboard-based ones, like the falling object parkour game Tetris'd , wouldn't port very well to an input device that's a flat sheet of glass. I haven't seen a smartphone with a built-in gamepad other than perhaps the outdated, overpriced Xperia Play.

You are a little out of date, Odin was downgraded during the pantheonic reorganization. Unfortunately due to a clerical error the one true God is now a central park squirrel named Skippy.

Foamy - his name is Foamy the Squirel

"Show me a kid who knows how to add in hardware."

Adding in hardware IS easy. This is how I do it:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/...

Depends what you're trying to do.

Let's take French Erotic Birthday and We Drink Ritalin and Badgers as a baseline. Or probably Smash Bros. Murder.

Does Inkscape do animation, or is it only for stills?

Depends what you're trying to do.

Let's take French Erotic Birthday and We Drink Ritalin and Badgers as a baseline. Or probably Smash Bros. Murder.

Does Inkscape do animation, or is it only for stills?

Canabalt

Requires flash.

Other than that site I haven't needed Flash for years. Any website that had no html home page lost my interest immediately.

So what do you do when you encounter a site with an HTML home page that contains a list of Flash animations (not wrappers around flv/mp4 videos, but actual vector animations)? Albino Blacksheep and Newgrounds are examples.

I don't see this happening. There is a lot of user-generated content, mostly games and animations that are often uploaded to third party websites, like Newgrounds. I don't think that any website on its right mind is going to allow Joe Developer to upload unverified javascript to their servers and post them publicly.

While it might be true that Canvas2D can display Flash in the enterprise environment, I don't think it can be a substitute for hobbyists who just want to publish their content. Not at this point anyway

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/585990

This is a game showing 2D relativistic effects that happens to be an actual game. You use time dialation to dodge bullets and try to turn different colored objects the same with Doppler. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any kind of skip-ahead (and I suck at it) so I could never see what the later levels added to the mix

But do you badger Badger badgers anymore? Or have you ended your habit of harassing Wisconsin mustelids? Either way, have a Mushroom mushroom.

wha ? wow ? Where should I begin with this ? Ok, first flash is a multimedia platform. The AppStore is a distribution platform. Both are very different. The appStore is composed of thousands of software that sometimes uses flash. Flash is a good technology that is still used today by lots of people. Some websites are dedicated to the use of flash like newgrounds. I don't know if this is a troll but I admit, you almost got me. Also, flash is here to stick around for some time and no it's not dead.

I was about to post that exact flash! So here's the link to watch it on Newgrounds, as uploaded by the original creator.

Well, Here's an example: Newgrounds.com. Flash games out the wazoo. In direct answer to your questions: Flash can run Orgasm Girl better than an app.

Well, Here's an example: Newgrounds.com. Flash games out the wazoo. In direct answer to your questions: Flash can run Orgasm Girl better than an app.

Microsoft has a history of marketing intelligence. They released the first version of Windows Update as the Critical Update Notification Tool (make the acronym...).

That or FC: Fluffy Creatures 2009 (SWF; NSFW).

They also had a campaign in System Center with the tagline "You're in control!" Spoken, it sounds like "hitting the bowl"

That or "Urine Control" sounds like what "Nintendo Wii" would mean if it were literal

the same way that "gun control is hitting what you're aiming at"

Interactive illustrations of the scale of objects in the known universe have always been amongst my favorite Internet distractions (sadly this is the only one I can locate at the moment). I hope I find this timeline interactive to be as interesting.

I assume he meant Adventure for the Atari 2600.

There was a flash comic some years ago about a sentient zombie called "Xombie", and its owner removed it from newgrounds because apparatnly it was too good and some DVDs were announced to "be coming".

Even better: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347 Plank Length to Observable Universe in a flash.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

It has a size, pal. (scroll left)

No need to take bets, we already know who wins.

Mr. Rogers

Cut the Rope [android.com] is 99 cents with at least half a million downloads.

Shit, for a moment there I thought this (warning: not Goatse) was the current bomb in gaming.

Imagine a computer programming tutorial game. Problems are thrown at your to solve by writing a function, class, whatever. Successful unit tests bring rewards and so on.

Light Bot! http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/459508 Awesome puzzle game that includes writing functions and loops.

I hate to let the cat out of the bag, but for for those young'uns who might not get this decade-old meme...

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/33440

As long as content creators support Flash, it will still exist. Newgrounds, as an example, still has a large community of flash artists and programmers, which regularly provide animations and games for free.

When these sites make the transition, Flash may die. Until then, it may be used significantly less, but it will still be there.

There is an early, free-to-play Flash version of this game available here.

(NOTE: Website contains other content which may be considered NSFW.)

I wonder what Nintendo has to say about all this. If I remember correctly, they tend to protect their trademarks and other intellectual property.

That newgrounds link to a cease and desist letter was an April fools joke. Skip to the end.

I wonder what Nintendo has to say about all this. If I remember correctly, they tend to protect their trademarks and other intellectual property.

the surreal planetoids and environments are definitely starting to trip me out a little. C.R.U.S.H. is one of my favorite games (on my PSP), and Time FCUK certainly held my interest.

Alice deserves an honorable mention.

I guess I thrive on surreal?

Who needs Facebook games when there are VirtualNES.com (Java) and Newgrounds (Flash)?

My parents.

Who needs Facebook games when there are VirtualNES.com (Java) and Newgrounds (Flash)?

Then again, from a moral perspective, I continue to wonder if we need to make it work here, before we start fucking up the rest of the galaxy.

Hmm. Unfortunately, the more I learn about the scale of the Universe - or even the Milky Way - the less confident I am about human stellar travel in the near future. Or the remote future.

There are lots of resources about this but here's one : http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

Actually, I hadn't realised the range of sizes of stars. Including the one that would take "1,200 years to travel round in a plane". This is still massively smaller than the distance to the Oort cloud, itself a fraction (1/40th?) of the distance to the nearest star. Really, our everyday experience is confined to the thin slice of scale between (say) mm and tens/hundreds/thousands of Km. If the subatomic world is the 'lower' - very empty - third of the total, and the cosmic is the upper third, then we directly experience only about the middle third of the middle third...

For a minute I thought you were going to let slip the Terrible Secret Of Space.

Sure, sex is often two-dimensional in games.

Especially the ones implemented in Flash.

Sounds like you went beyond super saiyan.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/432872

Then you'll hate One Chance: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/555181

Of course there are ways of resetting, like Chrome's incognito mode, and I just had to use it. I think what we like the most in open ended games is exploring the world in all its four dimensions. We want to see all the possibilities. That, coupled with laziness, just make we abuse save states and whatnot.

Before you even think about attempting this challenging game, remember, you have to burn the rope: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/432872

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/11439

Super Mario Crossover. Not quite JavaScript, but still pretty damn fun.

So is there going to be a Portal the Flash version sequel as well?

How about trance music? I only have http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/list.php?which=genre&id=11&order=score&sortorder=desc&page=1 for homemade audio tunes. What about commercial trance music videos? :(

Yes, I think we all remember the two mile island incident, a cup of java could be catastrophic under the right circumstances.

Natal, or 'Kinect' is different though, unfortunately not many people seem to have the imagination capable of seeing why so far however and just dismiss it as a clone of the Wii's control system.

The fundamental difference with Kinect is it's controllerless nature.

And being a controllerless concept is, at least to me, its biggest failure. It sounds like a great idea until you try it. Without something like a controller or equivalent object to provide a feed back, it leads to more frustration and lack of immersion to me. This is where the Wii had issues with me too. Sure it seems like fun at first but when your supposed to be striking something and you swing through it and the game shows you can't (like trying to deflect a weapon in game) the immersion is gone. There is no way I can smack around a 20 foot anything like nothing. I need at least something to can some vibrations to at least get the 'feel' something happened.Try these webcam games and be honest. How fun are they really? This is pretty much what Kinect is going to be. And I feel that the lack of being able to feel anything is what makes it lacking. At least I need something to feel or hold, even if it is just a controller as it is at least real at lets me feel in some way there is a limitation somewhere even in control options.

With the exception of the old-style vector-animated .swf stuff

And it is this "old-style vector-animated .swf stuff" that will keep Flash Player installed on people's PCs. Ever heard of All Your Base, or Hatt-baby, or Hyakugojyuuichi, or Badgers, or Weebl and Bob, or Homestar Runner? All vector-animated. Newgrounds? Entirely vector-animated until Numa Numa Dance proved the concept of FLV, and the vast majority is still vector-animated thanks to YouTube siphoning off the authors who would have used H.26x or VPx. For example, Hatt-baby is 1 MB, and it'd probably be ten times bigger if rendered and encoded in H.264.

With the exception of the old-style vector-animated .swf stuff

And it is this "old-style vector-animated .swf stuff" that will keep Flash Player installed on people's PCs. Ever heard of All Your Base, or Hatt-baby, or Hyakugojyuuichi, or Badgers, or Weebl and Bob, or Homestar Runner? All vector-animated. Newgrounds? Entirely vector-animated until Numa Numa Dance proved the concept of FLV, and the vast majority is still vector-animated thanks to YouTube siphoning off the authors who would have used H.26x or VPx. For example, Hatt-baby is 1 MB, and it'd probably be ten times bigger if rendered and encoded in H.264.

There's one for Windows XP too:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/66550