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Flash Forward Jam 2023

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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Jan 28, 2023


At 1/27/23 12:21 PM, nukinukinukiki wrote:I give to everyone my ng jame edit preloader for this event.
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That is very nice of you. Thanks.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Jan 28, 2023


At 1/28/23 03:32 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:That is very nice of you. Thanks.


Great job on the acknowledgment, @DoctorStrongbad!

Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Jan 30, 2023


At 1/28/23 09:13 AM, GUTHRIE wrote:
At 1/28/23 03:32 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:That is very nice of you. Thanks.

Great job on the acknowledgment, @DoctorStrongbad!


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Jan 30, 2023


At 1/30/23 03:24 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:I'm the best at everything.


I can think of a few things you're not so great at, @DoctorStrongbad!

Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Jan 31, 2023


At 1/30/23 06:33 AM, GUTHRIE wrote:
At 1/30/23 03:24 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:I'm the best at everything.

I can think of a few things you're not so great at, @DoctorStrongbad!


The only thing I'm not good at, is giving myself enough credit.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Jan 31, 2023


At 1/31/23 12:57 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:The only thing I'm not good at, is giving myself enough credit.


That's a really weird thing to say @DoctorStrongbad

Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Feb 1, 2023


At 1/31/23 06:32 AM, GUTHRIE wrote:
At 1/31/23 12:57 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:The only thing I'm not good at, is giving myself enough credit.

That's a really weird thing to say @DoctorStrongbad


Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Feb 1, 2023


Thought that this would be good to see for anyone using AS3 with the Newgrounds API. I set up a project to use the API's Level Sharing service, and it worked perfectly well on Flash Player 9. With Ruffle, though, I got a bunch of statements saying that features weren't implemented (i.e. allowDomain, allowInsecureDomain, loadPolicyFile, weak keys for Dictionary).


My understanding is that this means these AS3 functions just aren't working yet in Ruffle, but they might be added someday. Is that right or am I misinterpreting it? @TomFulp @Mike


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Feb 2, 2023


At 2/1/23 07:02 PM, Intrapath wrote:Thought that this would be good to see for anyone using AS3 with the Newgrounds API. I set up a project to use the API's Level Sharing service, and it worked perfectly well on Flash Player 9. With Ruffle, though, I got a bunch of statements saying that features weren't implemented (i.e. allowDomain, allowInsecureDomain, loadPolicyFile, weak keys for Dictionary).

My understanding is that this means these AS3 functions just aren't working yet in Ruffle, but they might be added someday. Is that right or am I misinterpreting it? @TomFulp @Mike


Correct, the goal is to support all functionality so those features will ideally be covered in the future, while not being ready today. There is also potential for some things to not work like they could in the past, due to modern CORS policies and how external data is hosted. For example if a game is trying to load assets from a third party server and modern browsers block it.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Feb 3, 2023


At 2/1/23 11:30 AM, dogepoof001 wrote:
At 1/31/23 12:57 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:The only thing I'm not good at, is giving myself enough credit.

@DoctorStrongbad


What were you going to say?


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Feb 3, 2023


At 1/27/23 03:38 PM, Derpydino17 wrote:
At 1/19/23 10:55 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:
At 1/19/23 08:03 AM, Derpydino17 wrote:I may not participate this year since I still got a game to finish up in Unity. Good luck to everyone working on their projects!

Which game are you finishing up?

@Derpydino17

Oh, it’s a 2d speed based platformer where a girl must escape from a dystopian city. It’s called Ruby’s Journey. I’ve been working on it since 2021 but had to restart at some point.

It’s basically done now, but I’m still figuring out how to get the cutscenes running on WebGL.


I’m totally switching to a new engine after working on Ruby’s Journey. Unity 2D has way too many features that it makes the engine feel super bloated and slow, especially for my computer. I may decide to switch to Flash or Godot.


The main issue I have with Flash is that level sizes are very limited, which makes designing levels for high speed platformers difficult without a tile system. Also AS2 is super slow as well. I can’t wait for ruffle to add AS3 support.

The issue with Godot is that I’m unable to play pre-rendered cutscenes on the web. I also hate the syntax.

Unpopular Opinion: Python’s syntax is absolute garbage, and so are languages that try to copy it.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Feb 3, 2023


At 2/3/23 01:23 PM, Derpydino17 wrote:
At 1/27/23 03:38 PM, Derpydino17 wrote:
At 1/19/23 10:55 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:
At 1/19/23 08:03 AM, Derpydino17 wrote:I may not participate this year since I still got a game to finish up in Unity. Good luck to everyone working on their projects!

Which game are you finishing up?

@Derpydino17


Oh, it’s a 2d speed based platformer where a girl must escape from a dystopian city. It’s called Ruby’s Journey. I’ve been working on it since 2021 but had to restart at some point.

It’s basically done now, but I’m still figuring out how to get the cutscenes running on WebGL.



I’m totally switching to a new engine after working on Ruby’s Journey. Unity 2D has way too many features that it makes the engine feel super bloated and slow, especially for my computer. I may decide to switch to Flash or Godot.


That sounds like a good idea.


The main issue I have with Flash is that level sizes are very limited, which makes designing levels for high speed platformers difficult without a tile system. Also AS2 is super slow as well. I can’t wait for ruffle to add AS3 support.


Flash does have that size limitation.


The issue with Godot is that I’m unable to play pre-rendered cutscenes on the web. I also hate the syntax.
Unpopular Opinion: Python’s syntax is absolute garbage, and so are languages that try to copy it.


I hope you can figure which one you are going to use.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Feb 20, 2023


Here my entry!



Play my Paper-Draw with medals, this is a flash game looks likely Draw-Play by EggysGames, but look different and this is of Roman and drawings.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Feb 28, 2023


At 2/24/23 01:09 AM, nukinukinukiki wrote:Play my Paper-Draw with medals, this is a flash game looks likely Draw-Play by EggysGames, but look different and this is of Roman and drawings.


I will give your game a chance. If you make a new game, let me know if you need a beta tester.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 3, 2023


I found this very good video that explains exactly what Flash was all about.

Why it was was popular, and why it died, etc.


Seriously underrated video.

Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 5, 2023


@TomFulp i've noticed that the deadline has been extended a bit from the initial March 26th deadline, will it be furthered past the new April one?

Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 5, 2023


At 3/5/23 08:40 PM, DOJIMADOG wrote:@TomFulp i've noticed that the deadline has been extended a bit from the initial March 26th deadline, will it be furthered past the new April one?


No plans to extend it beyond the April deadline.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 6, 2023


my friend is making fnf in flash 8


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 7, 2023


At 3/3/23 09:38 PM, lukerman1988 wrote:I found this very good video that explains exactly what Flash was all about.
Why it was was popular, and why it died, etc.

Seriously underrated video.


@lukerman1988


That was a nice video. Thanks for sharing it.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 7, 2023


Please avoid the use of copyrighted character and unlicensed commercial music.

Can I use 10s-15s of unlicensed music, I don't think it causes any copyright infringement issues.


At 3/7/23 12:50 PM, WLDGraphic wrote:Can I use 10s-15s of unlicensed music, I don't think it causes any copyright infringement issues.


Licensing agencies can still come after short snippets so it's best to avoid.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 7, 2023


At 3/6/23 04:46 AM, retrofoxofficial wrote:my friend is making fnf in flash 8


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When will your friend be submitting it?


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 12, 2023


At 1/2/23 04:28 PM, TomFulp wrote:Flash Forward Jam 2023

We’re hosting our third Flash Forward Jam! This event celebrates the legacy of Flash while giving people cool new Flash games and interactive movies. It’s a sort of alternate timeline where Flash never had to die! Entries run in the browser, thanks to Ruffle. Check out the 2021 and 2022 entries to get a feel for it!

January 3rd Update: We're testing a new experimental Ruffle build, with the same feature additions I outlined in the December 22nd test, such as bitmapdata and blend modes. Let me know if Ruffle was working for your previously but isn't working today!

Jam Requirements:

Note, if you want your work to run well on mobile, be sure your buttons have a large click space to capture finger taps.

Game Prizes:

1st - $1,200
2nd - $800
3rd - $600
4th - $350
5th - $150
6th - $100

Movie with Interactive Element Prizes:

1st - $120
2nd - $80
3rd - $66

We’re crowdfunding prize money! Use the donation option on the Supporter page and PM me a heads up you donated towards the Flash jam.

Current Sponsors:

@matt-likes-swords - Creator of Epic Battle Fantasy - $1,000
@PhotonStorm - Creator Phaser game framework and Cat Astro Phi - $250
@SamBakZa - Creator of There she is!!! - $200
@wheezl - $200
@radjunk - $150
@DrSevenSeizeMD - $103.97
@olskoo - $100
The Funkin' Crew - $100
@Weirdo - $100
@Piggybank12 - $75
@Foumart - $55
@RelchBelch - $50
@53xy83457 - $25
@HawtDogull - $25
@WiseTree-BBH - $22.22
@TecNoir - $10
Newgrounds - $1,000

Note Regarding the NG API for Medals and/or High Scores

Since the first Flash Forward, we updated the Project System to default to our HTML5 API (Newgrounds.io). If you go to the API page in your project, there's an "Advanced" link in the top right of the header bar. Click that and in the paragraph below there is text to "click here" to switch to the old Flash API. Do that and it should guide you through the rest. Flash API documentation is in the wiki.

Need Help with Flash and AS2?

@JackSmack has made a blog post of helpful classic AS: Main forum posts!

We also have some classic Flash and Flash Game Tutorials in the wiki!

Flash Forward Jam promo art by @zattdott!


I have 2 questions


can you use other software like blender or paint.net and can you use newgrounds characters ? like hank pico alloy and others

Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 12, 2023


At 3/12/23 02:20 PM, Sketonna wrote:I have 2 questions

can you use other software like blender or paint.net and can you use newgrounds characters ? like hank pico alloy and others


You can create assets in other software as long as the final game is put together in Flash. You're welcome to use Pico and with other characters it's generally best to get the blessing of whoever created the character.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 12, 2023


At 3/12/23 04:12 PM, TomFulp wrote:
At 3/12/23 02:20 PM, Sketonna wrote:I have 2 questions

can you use other software like blender or paint.net and can you use newgrounds characters ? like hank pico alloy and others

You can create assets in other software as long as the final game is put together in Flash. You're welcome to use Pico and with other characters it's generally best to get the blessing of whoever created the character.


Since i got your attention can i use PBot Dad'n me and Alien Hominid as well?

Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 13, 2023


At 3/12/23 04:12 PM, TomFulp wrote:
At 3/12/23 02:20 PM, Sketonna wrote:I have 2 questions

can you use other software like blender or paint.net and can you use newgrounds characters ? like hank pico alloy and others

You can create assets in other software as long as the final game is put together in Flash. You're welcome to use Pico and with other characters it's generally best to get the blessing of whoever created the character.


Being able to use Pico is a high honor.


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 17, 2023


I just added my game, Pixel Puzzle!

Long live Flash as2!

Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 17, 2023


At 3/17/23 03:26 AM, Veinom wrote:I just added my game, Pixel Puzzle!
Long live Flash as2!


Great work! I've enabled Ruffle on this so it can be played in-browser without our desktop player. It seems to work fine in Ruffle for me, let me know if you had noticed any issues there!


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Response to Flash Forward Jam 2023 Mar 17, 2023


At 3/17/23 08:25 AM, TomFulp wrote:Great work! I've enabled Ruffle on this so it can be played in-browser without our desktop player. It seems to work fine in Ruffle for me, let me know if you had noticed any issues there!


It plays perfectly, thank you Tom! You are doing awesome work here!