xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@PurpCat @beardalaxy There's really no point in creating browser games anymore. Why make some arcade-style time waster in your browser when you can just use Unity and make a full fledged game?

@PurpCat @beardalaxy
>flash as a game platform is dead

There has to be some dedicated following though. Ruffle exists and Flash is way to unique as a gaming platform for some people to give up. I'd imagine it being like all those Apple II devs who stuck with the platform even after the 8-bit computing era ended.

And even then, I think there are a lot of people who are at least still nostalgic for the artstyle. FNF is largely influenced by it though the devs were active on NewGrounds so there's that.

@PurpCat @beardalaxy And that's probably prevented the flash scene from being flooded with pixel-shit. I wish the current indie scene was more like that.

@beardalaxy Are they actual SVGs or just SVGs converted to raster graphics?

I think Adobe Flash supported vector graphics out of the box. That's what gives many flash games that iconic artstyle. I honestly prefer that over pixel art. If the engine supports SVGs, you can scale and zoom in them infinitely without a loss in quality.

There should be more game engines/frameworks that support SVGs (or any other vector graphics) natively/out-of-the-box. I think indie developers should make games in the style of flash games you saw on Newgrounds. It has much more personality than pixel art and probably is much easier to do compared to hand-drawn art.

Apparently, SDL has native support for SVGs, but I haven't tried it yet.

@PurpCat Oh yeah. I remember you talking about it and how the creator wished that he made it FOSS and/or decentralized so it could live on.

@PurpCat Is this like the Macintosh Garden? I guess I could take this as an opportunity to finally try some of the Mac exclusive hidden gems like Escape Velocity.

@PurpCat Pangea is still supporting Apple platforms exclusively.

@PurpCat Speaking of which, I can't believe Pangea Software is still around given that Apple has only become more hostile towards games (breaking compatibility on macOS every 5 years), and their iOS and tvOS catalog is nothing to write home about.

https://www.pangeasoft.net/index.html

Added empty item boxes and a particle effect when you destroy them.

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I'm sick of hearing about the FIFA World Cup.