In 2017, Adobe announced that it would end support for the Flash plug-in at the end of 2020. With this announcement came similar ones from browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, and Edge stating they would all cease support for Flash around the same timeframe.
Flash, of course, was the basis for a lot of web games in the 2000s and early 2010s, and helped bring many talented game developers into the spotlight. It also paved way for many talented animators to reach and impact a wide audience.
In early 2018, BlueMaxima decided to start an archival project to save as much Flash games as possible, and since then it has grown to an effort of hundreds of individuals over the years to preserve not just Flash, but web games and interactives dating as early as 1994.
Since the start of the project, Flashpoint has grown to include over 150,000 games and 25,000 animations, with that number growing with each release.
If you wish to see what’s included in the archive, feel free to use the search tool here, or feel free to join our Discord for other questions or simply to hang out.
Projects like these are so important. Preserving as much of the history of the web is the key to showing new generations what the internet was, helping us to build a better one for the future.