{"id":18926,"date":"2020-12-20T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=18926"},"modified":"2020-12-20T10:54:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T18:54:57","slug":"last-chance-to-play-old-flash-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2020\/12\/20\/last-chance-to-play-old-flash-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Last chance to play old Flash games!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Flash Player will stop working at the end of the year. (It\u2019s already been shut down in some browsers.) So if you want to revisit any old-favorite Flash games, now\u2019s the time.<\/p>\r\n<p>For example, there\u2019s the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xgenstudios.com\/game.php?keyword=flow\">flOw<\/a>, made by (at least some of?) the same people who made Journey and Sky and Flower. Microbes eating microbes; pretty graphics; soundscape by Austin Wintory (composer of Journey et alia).<\/p>\r\n<p>And there are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyezmaze.com\/sp\/2018\/07\/flash_game.html\">EYEZMAZE Flash games<\/a>, such as various Grow games, and the whack-a-mole-like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyezmaze.com\/sp\/2004\/05\/tontieV1.html\">Tontie<\/a>. Some of the EYEZMAZE games have been rewritten in HTML5, so those will continue to be available, but I assume that others will be gone forever when Flash Player stops working. (PS: the author of these games survived heart surgery in 2019, but is currently having more health issues; if you remember their work fondly, you could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyezmaze.com\/sp\/2020\/12\/onlineSupport.html\">drop them a donation<\/a> to help support them.)<\/p>\r\n<p>And, of course, there\u2019s the minimalist Risk-like game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedesign.jp\/flash\/dice\/dice.html\">Dice Wars<\/a>. I\u2019ve had a love\/hate relationship with this game for many years; have started playing it again recently because I know I won\u2019t be able to play it any more after this month. I sometimes enjoy it, sometimes find it frustrating, sometimes find it infuriating. But I imagine that a few years from now, I\u2019ll start missing it.<\/p>\r\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t surprise me if sooner or later there are Flash emulators and other tools that provide a way to play these games again. But for now, if you want to revisit them, now\u2019s the time.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-web-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18927,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions\/18927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}