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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 04:28:49 Reply

At 7/28/14 08:19 PM, Markface wrote: What stuns me about Newgrounds is how the quality of creations submitted here continue to get better and better. I realise the website may be lacking the support it had 7 or so years ago, but the quality is still immense.

While YouTube is filled with "LET'S PLAY LOOL!!!! :D" and "KIDS REACT TO ____" videos, Newgrounds is still forwarding the best of animation and game on the web. If your friend shows you a funny video on YouTube or a cool game on some random website, it's a safe bet to say it originated from here.

or it at least has influence from the NG community and flash series. Think how many series wouldn't have cock jokes if it weren't for us?


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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 16:31:08 Reply

At 7/29/14 03:49 AM, Cabbster wrote:
Guess I'll have to do my part and make some seriously deranged/evil music to help this new *trend*. Hell, that's about as underground as I can fathom...so underground, that I'm making content for ideas not even fully established yet.

That's the spirit!

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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 16:42:01 Reply

People can submit HTML5 and Unity games if they don't want to use Flash. It sounds like submitting Unity games will get easier in the near future.


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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 16:52:58 Reply

At 7/29/14 04:42 PM, WadeFulp wrote: People can submit HTML5 and Unity games if they don't want to use Flash. It sounds like submitting Unity games will get easier in the near future.

I have recently started targeting HTML5 myself, and I'm glad to see it is supported. I think Unity3D is a great engine also, and people are making some great stuff with it. The only problem I hear Unity3D developers are having is people don't wanna download the Unity plugin to play their games and often rate them 0 because of it.

Hopefully the players will realize they're missing out by not having the Unity plugin.

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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 16:53:42 Reply

Not really. Newgrounds stills support Flash. In fact, I think every website stills support Flash. I thought it was still new to people.


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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 17:10:33 Reply

At 7/29/14 04:52 PM, bumblefish wrote: I have recently started targeting HTML5 myself, and I'm glad to see it is supported. I think Unity3D is a great engine also, and people are making some great stuff with it. The only problem I hear Unity3D developers are having is people don't wanna download the Unity plugin to play their games and often rate them 0 because of it.

Hopefully the players will realize they're missing out by not having the Unity plugin.

We don't let you vote or review Unity content if you don't have the plugin installed, unless the dev doesn't check the "Unity" box when they upload. Once we allow direct Unity upload vs the ZIP method, that will be less of an issue.


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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 17:13:08 Reply

Interesting note... We're actually doing our biggest sponsorship in well over a year and it's for a really cool Flash game. Expect it around the second week of August!


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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 17:13:36 Reply

At 7/28/14 06:26 PM, Bullion wrote:
Ten years ago NG was still one of the biggest sites on the net. and now it's barely anything.

it was ok.....

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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 17:33:34 Reply

At 7/29/14 05:13 PM, TomFulp wrote: Interesting note... We're actually doing our biggest sponsorship in well over a year and it's for a really cool Flash game. Expect it around the second week of August!

Thanks for the information! I'm looking forward to checking it out!

As far as Unity goes, it sounds like a lot of people don't know exactly how the rating system works (myself included).

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Response to Flash is dead! Will it affect NG? 2014-07-29 18:53:20 Reply

We still got OpenFL, Construct, game engines like Flashpunk, and Flixel, which aside from Construct, are free.
Plus, AS2 is one of the most user accessible programming languages ever.
I don't think Flash is going anywhere.


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