Back in its heyday, I strongly felt the next "generation" of flash games was going to be GMod Lua addons. Back in 2007/2008 there were so many developers that could have completely reshaped the medium, but due to limitations in the Source engine, they were never realized. If GMod + the Source engine became open source then I think we would have had nothing short of a revolution.
Too bad Valve turned evil and Garry stopped giving a shit. It's funny because despite how GMod has regressed, it continues to limp along. That whole garrysmod.org Lua addon model has [i]yet[/i] to be properly copied.
[QUOTE=lardycheese;51695324]Back in its heyday, I strongly felt the next "generation" of flash games was going to be GMod Lua addons. There was so much potential there. If GMod + the Source engine became open source then I think we would have had nothing short of a revolution. Too bad Valve turned evil and Garry stopped giving a shit.[/QUOTE]
They'd probably turn to Unity instead. Valve dev tools aren't really simple and approachable like flash, and unity somewhat, are.
Unity is one of the big causes for the relative death of game modding and flash games actually, why fuck with mod tools when this super-approachable engine lets you do a whole lot, and even make lots of money off it.
Yeah... no disagreement there. The Valve tools totally suck.
The GMod community, however, was unprecedented. If GMod/Source was open-sourced, We likely would have seen a bottom-up revamp of the entire stack; since devs like TetaBonita, Mahalis, Night Eagle, CapsAdmin, etc were still around. The Valve tools would have gone to the wayside.
Another classic:
[video=youtube;VmuiwOGi5gA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmuiwOGi5gA[/video]
This game was another classic that I also liked to play.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/87PTGRd.jpg[/IMG]
Original Flash Dead Frontier was my first MMORPG I think? Homestarrunner games, Thing Thing, Madness Interactive and all 900 of it's mods. (Anyone remember rayne.hellawack.net? A member named Paul Simon on here came from there too, I remember), Line Rider, any game with ragdoll physics because I thought it was the shit. Mario Castle Shooter, Flash Flash Revolution, Last Stand games, Endless War games, Stick RPG, Super Stick RPG 2, the original Binding of Issac, Dad 'n Me, Wink: The Game, Xiao Xiao.
Double Wires, Gunmaster Onslaught 2.0, N, that fucking Paper Throw game, Bowman, Raiden X, escape the room games, Cursor Thief, Ragdoll Avalanche, Sonny, Deanimator, Sift Heads, The Helicopter Game, City Jumper, and Spank The Monkey.
These are just the ones I can remember, I'm sure I played more than this. I sat here for a good 20 minutes trying to remember all of them, my God there were so many.
I just remembered Burrito Bison yday. Installed it on my android and holy hell, this game is still good.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;51674855]The third-person exploration game was called Lego Backlot, I think.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=skylortrexle;51674865]Also in the pack I linked[/QUOTE]
How do you get Backlot to work? I got XAMPP, but it doesn't want to start up properly.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mFvg2gl.png[/IMG]
Oh, I can't forget these. I was big into stick movies as a kid. A teaser for the last part, 6, was made in 2003, but 14 years later still hasn't come out.
[QUOTE=Damian0358;51699508]How do you get Backlot to work? I got XAMPP, but it doesn't want to start up properly.[/QUOTE]
After installing XAMPP, and then running the install script, open the XAMPP control panel and start the Apache Service and then use the launcher.hmtl
Also make sure you have shockwave.
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;51695105]Relevant:
[video=youtube;FlTkGmj_e3g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTkGmj_e3g[/video][/QUOTE]
The last game being filled to the brim with microtransactions is both disappointing and totally expected.
Really I wouldn't call a $100 a microtransaction, but I guess it's the lingo.
[t]http://swordandsandals.top/wp-content/uploads/swordsandsandals-hacked.png[/t]
the best
I didn't see anyone else mention teagames, those motorbike games where the best, and it was one of the only sites that worked on school computers for me.
My favorite part of Nick.com was that it was all NES ripoffs
[url]http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Games/CMTVMore/SpongeBobSquarepants10.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Games/CartoonsMoviesTV/SpongeBobSquarepants2.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Games/CartoonsMoviesTV/SpongeBobSquarepants.htm[/url]
[QUOTE=skylortrexle;51700933]After installing XAMPP, and then running the install script, open the XAMPP control panel and [B]start the Apache Service [/B]and then use the launcher.hmtl
Also make sure you have shockwave.[/QUOTE]
For some reason, when reading the instructions, I completely missed this. Now it works! Thanks man!
Me and my buddy grew up on Addicting Games mid 2000s. When it was still just a white page with lil boxes. I also really got into 'stickpage', a community for just Stick movies and games.
Anyone remember Pivot? Some personal fav flash games:
Storm the House
Dynasty Street
Penalty Chamber
And who could forget, the 'Escape the Room' games!!! Who remembers the one with the weird 90s song 'Captain Jack' as an easter egg in the bookshelf??!
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Also : God's Playing Field.
Also:::: Flash E-Greeting cards. Ok i'll stop.
[QUOTE=LieutenantLeo;51707567]Also : God's Playing Field.[/QUOTE]
first name drop in this thread that made me go "oh shit! I remember that!"
Lego Drome Racing Challenge[IMG]http://www.gry-online.pl/Galeria/Html/Wiadomosci/174757093.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Exho;51707659]Lego Drome Racing Challenge[IMG]http://www.gry-online.pl/Galeria/Html/Wiadomosci/174757093.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
oh SHIET, that's the game I was looking for. What a weird fucking game that was.
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Apparently there's a lego wiki page for it that goes more in depth: [url]http://www.brickwiki.info/wiki/Drome_Racing_Challenge[/url]
[QUOTE=LieutenantLeo;51707567]the one with the weird 90s song 'Captain Jack' as an easter egg in the bookshelf??!
[/QUOTE]
holy shit
I used to love adventure quest around 2002-4, loads of people in my school played it and were jelly cause I had the super rare powerful sword that you got by pure RNG collecting all the pieces.
In the late 90s/very early 2000s I used to love [url=http://www.zthing.com/index.php]Zthing[/url] as well, they did loads of weird minigames/flash animations on current events. One day their site went offline and was replaced with the message you see of 'we will be back soon', but that message has been there nearly 15 years. When you Google the site you get loads of threads over the last 15 years along the lines of 'does anyone know what happened to zthing?'
Can still access their stuff though [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001203231500/http://www.zthing.com/new_archives.html]wayback machine[/url]. I recommend [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001203231500/http://www.zthing.com/zthings/zthingspankme.exe]this[/url] (Yeah its a .exe, all of their flash stuff came packaged as exe files unless you viewed them through the site)
have we posted this yet
[url]http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/362842[/url]
There was a lot of great George Bush games. That was pretty much the extent of my political knowledge back then.
Who remember's the Bush speechwriting game? And Dancing Bush!
[QUOTE=windows098;51685751][video=youtube;GxY5fDn5sjQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxY5fDn5sjQ[/video]
Still my favioute comedy series.[/QUOTE]
remember back when 1 minute long episodes once a week was considered frequent uploading for flash series? :v:
I feel that in terms of things like flashgames we need more oldschool goodness. it would be nice to see more creativity in the vein of HL1 mods/retro modding scene. It's almost like making indie games except on a smaller scale.
Either that or maybe I should just browse the net more with stuff like itch.io
What's that old castle defense game where you pick up dudes with the cursor and drop them?
[QUOTE=RobL;51720751]What's that old castle defense game where you pick up dudes with the cursor and drop them?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.stickpage.com/defendyourcastleplay.shtml[/url]
[QUOTE=RobL;51720751]What's that old castle defense game where you pick up dudes with the cursor and drop them?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.xgenstudios.com/game.php?keyword=castle[/url]
I used to go on Kongregate to play Platform racing. Went back there to check if the site and games still exist and surprisingly they do! I remember spending the most time on Platform Racing 2
[url]http://www.kongregate.com/games/Jiggmin/platform-racing-2[/url]
[img]http://orig05.deviantart.net/97ce/f/2010/099/1/3/platform_racing_2_stats_page_by_bndbyplyrply.png[/img]
[QUOTE=HetsuProcyon;51721302]I used to go on Kongregate to play Platform racing. Went back there to check if the site and games still exist and surprisingly they do! I remember spending the most time on Platform Racing 2
[url]http://www.kongregate.com/games/Jiggmin/platform-racing-2[/url]
[t]http://orig05.deviantart.net/97ce/f/2010/099/1/3/platform_racing_2_stats_page_by_bndbyplyrply.png[/t][/QUOTE]
Oh man this game was the shit, I remember making so many levels that they wouldn't fit on the nine-page level browser
Then the level editor started corrupting my saved levels or something and I couldn't use it anymore :frown:
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