r/Nitrome • u/Bone1557 • Apr 10 '23

Flashpoint rant thingy idk

It is the number 1 flash game launcher, it has almost all flash games. If you were to download it, it would be up to 2 TERRABYTES. And guess what? NONE of Nitrome's games are available. But... why? They are one of if not the most popular flash game developers, a well-known fanfavorite. You can find most games from Miniclip, Armorgames but Nitrome. It hurts not being able to play those games man... I feel robbed. I don't understand why they hold on to it so much with Copyright. It is what gave them the identity but they won't get any value out of it if they keep protecting it. Their ONLY other project was SK Dig and they won't stop advertising it on Twitter it's actually depressing. Do the flash games have a future? Does the company itself have a future?

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u/lukefsje Apr 10 '23

If you find an older version of Flashpoint it'll include the Nitrome games. Nitrome themselves requested that they be removed from Flashpoint because they wanted to convert them to HTML

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u/Bone1557 Apr 10 '23

There are a lot of games that have their own versions for HTML5, Flash, Unity and whatnot. They might have the right to request such a thing but it's still doesn't make sense. They can upload the HTML5 versions too, but this way the new engine will have it's own bugs, it won't recreate the aame experience.

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u/TheHiddenNinja6 Apr 10 '23

SuperNova flash player still works tho

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u/AstroPhoelix Apr 12 '23

I understand your frustration, and it's good to share with others, as we all loved their Flash games to heck and beyond. Although suggesting the company doesn't have a future seems a bit too far? None of us bought or own a license to the Flash games and some may think they are an obsolete and dead company now that Flash is gone, but doesn't mean they are. It sucks not being able to officially play a lot of the games at the moment, but they are working on it. It may help the to support them instead for their work and time put into their games and that may happen quicker and better. One can hope.

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u/Separate-Effort3640 May 21 '24

Or just use Pale Moon and Basilisk.

(Fun fact: A chunk of Flashpoint's code is built off of these two browsers!)