So fucking sad.
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Matt Roszak
@matt-likes-swords
Age 34, Male
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Glasgow University
Glasgow, UK
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I can't believe it, didn't expect this to happen so soon
Same. I guess HTML5 never saved web gaming after all.
oh well still we have NG and Armor Games :) so its all good
Everything good comes to an end ;-;
god dammit I never realized we were this close to the flash browser purge thing, I´m glad there´s already a bunch of ways around it but actual flash games are gonna become a super niche thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIkA8d0P6xU
LEGENDS
For some reason I never really got into Kongregate. But I remember that Greg was a great guy to work with.
That's rough. But I'm glad they are taking the necessary steps to at least keep the site alive in an archived mode. Plenty of other sites have simply poofed out of existence!
@Wiesi I agree, Greg was the heart of a good experience for me with Kongregate.
All these moments, like tears in the rain...
Borealis theme plays
Wut! I just uploaded a game there 2 weeks ago... So strange...
Whelp, my games never got any badges there. When my games were popular on the internet, they were bombed on Kong. And the people were nastier than here...
Let's be honest, it was a site only for minimal effort idle games recently. Hardly curated content. Not like NG or Armor Games. As a new player on web I'd be put off by the games on Kong these days.
People aren't uploading their Epic Battle Fantasy or their Sonny.
They're uploading My-First-Idle-Made-In-Two-Days...
Still, I'm going to miss that site. Very influential. A starting point for many careers. Fun place. I remember how enjoyable it was to hang there in 2008. The very reason I started making games was that you could win prizes with a small good game. Winning $500 for a teenager is a lifechanging event. I'm a bit sad I won't ever be able to get the monthly 1st prize there. :(
Man, in 2010 we thought we were kings and the good times would never end...
F to pay respects
Difficult to work on this scrap heap I've got it may have been but that IS where I really got into your EBF series....
Aw fuck... I really liked Kongr
Really going to miss elona shooter by noanoa definitely one of my favorite games from that site...
Lets type F in the chat.
Dang, that's a real shame. Kongregate was also where I found out about EBF in general, too. Kinda forgot about the Kong version after I got the Steam version, but seeing you mention Kong made all these old memories rush back.
For what it's worth, I find that Firefox allows you to run Flash content with no need for any extensions. While retaining Flash may or may not be beneficial for the web, keeping old versions around it should be fine on the grounds that most new content wouldn't use it, and that it's for archival purposes. Kinda like how Java applets should still be viewable imo if you can find em online...not too many hackers looking to target your system via applets after 10+ years of it being abandoned.
OatmealPecheneg
No one is eternal. That's sad but true.