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Beautiful site charts how Flash games shaped the industry

Rob Beschizza
Mar 07, 2025
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Classic Flash game Canabalt

Flash (and the Actionscript 2 language that came with it) was the convenience that finally got my middling mind wrapped around making games. And that is true of many game devs who in earlier times might have drifted off to less ideal media for their work. "Flash is dead," writes Jonas Richter, "but the influence of Flash on mo…

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