News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track.

Re:I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track by danbmil99 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:47PM (#25216895)
Is the game going to survive Flash's imminent end of life?

I spent way more time than I want to admit playing my favorite Flash game, Fantastic Contraption. I'm concerned that the possibly millions of hours of creativity that went into the thousands of levels and hundreds of thousands of solutions are going to go down with that ship in a couple months.

I guess the internet archive is working on supporting older games but I wonder how feature complete and bug-free that's likely to be

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track by delu on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:56PM (#25216954)
Yes, Line Rider will survive because it's no longer made in Flash. I recreated it in Javascript.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track by SulfurHexaFluri on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:53PM (#25216928)
There are already well established flash archival projects which should keep flash alive forever.

I think the biggest issue was not the death of flash, but that many games used external resources and broke after those servers went down.

[ Parent | on HN ]