author: Bart Swiatek
36 Thousand Free Flash Games Saved From Oblivion
Devs at BlueMaxima have saved 36,000 flash games from being forgotten, which would stop working at the end of the year - after the Flash plug-in will finally be disabled for good. The games can be downloaded as part of a special open-source program.
At the end of this year we will see the end of the Flash standard, which for years has driven various websites and games available on the Internet. Browser developers are dropping the supporting of the outdated solution due to the end of its development and concerns about gaps and security problems. Unfortunately, this situation means that on January 1 next year many browser games will stop working, because not all of them have been (or will be) converted to HTML5 or Unity. Fans of this type of entertainment may find refude in Flashpoint, an app which enables you to download and play more than 36 thousand games based on Flash technology. Below you can watch the trailer.
Flashpoint uses open-source software and you can download it at this address. There are two variants available - in one case we download the client himself and the games are downloaded when we start playing. The second option is to download the whole database at once - after unpacking everything takes 288 GB. The list of available titles can be found here. What is important, there is also a form that enables us to submit games to the database. If there is nothing in the list that interests you, first take a look at the summary of game requests.
It is worth noting that the creators of web games may ask the authors of the program to remove a given game in connection with copyright infringement and the request will be fulfilled. This is not very common - if the developers do not plan to convert their work to a newer engine, in most cases they do not mind keeping it as it is, instead of having it completelt disappear from the Internet.
Of course, games based on Flash are not AAA titles, but still they are a piece of gaming history and it's good that someone took care of archiving them.