Ferry Halim

How Flash games shaped the video game industry

Flash is dead. But the influence of Flash games on modern gameplay is inescapable.

Historic Tale Construction Kit

Two German students originally wrote the Historic Tale Construction Kit, with Flash. Sadly, their work isn't available anymore, only remembered. This new application is a tribute, but also an attempt to revive the old medieval meme, with code and availability that won't get lost.

The Internet Archive is now preserving Flash games and animations

Early internet culture lives on

The rise and fall of Adobe Flash

Around the same time, Jackson had been struggling to convince retailers to stock SmartSketch. Then he noticed that CompUSA had kiosks and shelves of products in prime positioning with the phrase 'made for the Web' stamped on them. So, he told Gay they needed to do something for the Web.

The Flash Games Postmortem

This talk will attempt to encapsulate the immense history of Flash games and how it has shaped the current game industry. This is as much a story about how Flash lived, rather than how Flash has (maybe) finally died.