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There are still old places like Stickpage[0] and Newgrounds[1] that are up. They feel like relics from the early web before mass consolidation onto social networks like MySpace took place.

[0]: https://www.stickpage.com/

[1]: https://www.newgrounds.com/

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Newgrounds is helping develop Ruffle, a Flash player built in Rust that runs (via WebAssembly, I think, though it technically supports ASM.js via emscripten) in HTML5 browsers: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

Good luck. I know of a previous Flash player built in Rust that was killed iirc by Adobe's lawyers after years of development.

Is that why Shumway was abandoned?

Uh, source on that claim? The Flash player specification and even its VM are both open and unencumbered.

https://armorgames.com/

I grew up in Newgrounds and helped Dan set up ArmorGames and ran some of their contests. It was a lot of fun and a super creative space.

waves Hi! I made what I'm pretty sure was the first game for ArmorGames, in fact it was still branded GamesOfGondor, since he originally wanted to commission all LOTR-themed games.

Dan was a really nice guy, very friendly and enthusiastic. Wish I had done more with him in retrospect, but the artist I was working with suddenly lost interest while working on the second game, and things kinda fell apart.

The first game is still up on Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/210883

Hey, I remember you! Good times!

I was also involved in the GoG days but I didn't think people remembered that. It changed pretty quickly due to legal reasons.

omg inglor! I remember your name was a meme back when I was in the newgrounds forums learning how to make games. I remember you had a contest(?) or were just helping people learn how to make games only using the drawing API without any hand-drawn assets. thank you!! :)

Literally an ancient relic from my past. Seems very long ago, so wholesome.

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