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At the tender age of 10 years old I discovered the world of internet animation. It was 2005 and I was sitting at my family's Windows 98 toaster, in absolute marvel of the fact that someone could, by themself, create a cartoon and share it with an audience of hundreds- possibly even thousands or millions. With a GIF editing suite that came packaged with a Photoshop knock off my mother owned, I created a Geocities page and posted very crude Mario sprite animations, aping the works of Randy Solem of Video Game Directors Cuts (VGDC) to share with my friends and classmates.

It was the spring of 2007 when I came to have my own copy of Macromedia Flash Professional 8, and since 2007 I have made and contributed to more than 400 Flash movies and games. Tomorrow, Adobe cuts support for Flash Player. All major web browsers have said they will do the same. This is effectively the death of the .swf format, which has been a corner stone of the independent artist for two decades. This is my farewell.


Newgrounds.com has made moves towards the preservation of its massive back catalog of swf format submissions with the release of Newgrounds Player, a desktop executable that functions essentially as a Flash Player shell, and has sponsored the development of Ruffle, an emulation software that converts swf files to a HTML format natively in browser. It has a way to come but at the moment it functions quite admirably, fully supporting Actionscript2, meaning that practically all animations and a great deal of online games from yesteryear are here to stay. Please support its further development at Ruffle.rs



The song in this video is 'Goodnight, So Long, Goodbye' by The Stanfields, from their latest EP 'Classic Fadeout', released January 24th, 2020. Buy it, it's fantastic.
www.thestanfields.ca


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