Adobe Flash

Huh.

And he had built a lot of the fundamental models for instructional design to help people, like, how will people learn on computers? Just to, I guess, kind of date me and my time, this is when the internet was moving with this thing called Flash, Macromedia Flash, if you remember those-

No

... days of the internet where everything was, like, dancing around.

But I was I was doing a presentation on the PDF format.

And at that time, Acrobat had Adobe Flash built into it.

So you could do.

Right.

Not really.

Cause, uh, Like I was in Flash pretty deep for a while back then.

I didn't do C++ so much.

So I was working with some creation studios who are still present, but more on like a student job kind of thing.

It was like something like $300 per month.

You know, it was like crazy miserably, but it was very low prices back then in Croatia as well.

And then when I published my first game on Flash Game License, I got like double that for the first game.

So I was like, okay, this is much better.

That is some pretty cool stuff that the internet archive did.

And that was like a decade ago, but they, they put, They got the technology together when Flash died and they said, well, we preserved all these games and you're still able to play them in your browser today, which is awesome.

Create a Ride, Mini Golf 2, Helicopter, Boom Boom Volleyball.

I only played that one because if you got to level five, they would become topless.

I played a lot of Sokoban, which is the one where you're moving the boxes.

yes yeah but i will just tell you chase most of my time on the internet on these websites was more for like meme video stuff like early youtube like i played flash games like everybody did because i was like on chat rooms and i was waiting on people to play a game but yeah more again playing video games on my xbox and then you know all the other stuff at that time

Yeah, I mean, there was certainly a lot of watching Flash animations and stuff when we, you know, had some time in the computer lab.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned it on the show, but, well, I definitely mentioned it.

But persistent local state and offline routing only handle the data layer.

If the browser is going to replace native apps, what about the flashy stuff? For years, we relied on third-party plugins like Adobe Flash to do anything fun.

Which were basically black boxes.

They burned battery life, created massive security vulnerabilities.

And famously, mobile devices like the iPad didn't support Flash anyway.

Exactly.

So HTML5 engineered those capabilities natively.

The audio and video tags completely removed the need for Flash, utilizing the operating system's native hardware decoding.

I've, I've skimmed through some of it, but man, times were different back then.

Uh, But basically, this game does not run in Flash at all as far as I know, even back then.

But it has the hand-drawn cartoon style and animation that were equivalent to what you would see in Flash games and animations back in the time.

before this game they also had a game called alien hominid which at some point i want us to talk about and there's even a little cameos and stuff from that in this title and there's lots of poop in this game too because obviously you have to throw that in there because again we

you know there's a lot of like poop references there's like i said a lot of like goofy things that happen there's like one point where you'll fight i i pointed it out a lot of the characters in the one boss fight you come across they look very like aqua team hunger force like the way they're drawn and yeah basically or like home movies in a way just like how terrible they're drawn uh dakota were you ever uh familiar with newgrounds prior to this

Yeah, I feel like I was.

It's been so long, but I remember playing Flash games in middle school and high school all the time, and I feel like Newground Games was one of the big websites back then, if I'm not mistaken.

Mm-hmm.

Sitting in the back of your school computer lab.

Of course, we're going to be talking today about Flash games.

Nice.

I love Flash games.

So for an entire generation, the computer was secretly a game console because as long as you had a web browser and the Flash plugin, you had access to thousands of free games.

No installation, no account, no credit card.

Just a loading bar, some questionable sound effects, and the constant fear that your teacher would walk up behind you.

This, of course, is the story of the Flash game.