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With the death of Flash in 2020, other creators are attempting to preserve webgame efforts via ports, compilations or remakes of their games. This page documents these efforts for the public record and are categorized into different groups.
Emulation: Efforts that involve preserving the technology used to run webgames as a whole.
Sitewide: Efforts by webhosts to keep the content hosted on their site playable.
Developers/Creators: Independent efforts by individual Developers/Creators to preserve their entire portfolio.
Individual Games/Series: Efforts that intend to preserve only an individual game or select series of games.
Emulation
| Name of Item | Method | Description | Original Files | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruffle | Browser Extension | An open source port of Flash in the Rust programming language. | Yes | https://ruffle.rs/ |
Sitewide
| Website Name | Method | Description | Original Files | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newgrounds | Ruffle | Newgrounds has adopted Ruffle as their player for displaying Flash web content. | Yes | https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1444275 |
Developers/Creators
| Developer/Creator | Name of Item | Method | Description | Original Files | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ninja Kiwi | Ninja Kiwi Archive | Steam Game | A collection of the Flash games in a standalone launcher on Steam, tied to their web server as the web versions were | Yes? (Hard to confirm) | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1275350/Ninja_Kiwi_Archive/ |
| Nitrome | N/A | HTML5 Port of Flash | A Flash shell is being made by creator Poki that will run their entire catalog of games natively, with games being rolled out over time. | Yes? | http://www.nitrome.com/html5-games/ |
| Edmund McMillen (Bluebaby) | The Basement Collection | Steam Game | Adobe Air versions of Edmund McMillen's Flash games with extra content. Costs $4 but often goes on sale. | Yes | https://store.steampowered.com/app/214790/The_Basement_Collection/ |
Individual Games/Series
| Game | Name of Item | Method | Description | Original Files | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Stickmin Series | The Henry Stickmin Collection | Steam Game | A remaster with extra content of the original Flash series | No | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1089980/The_Henry_Stickmin_Collection/ |
| Sierra 7 | Same name | Mobile Game | A remaster of the original Flash game with extra content and microtransactions (but still free to play) | No | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.shdgames.sierra7.gp |
| Club Penguin | Club Penguin Rewritten | Browser Game and Browser extension | A fanmade rehosting of the original game with extra content and no member fees | Yes | https://play.cprewritten.net/ |