How Flash games shaped the video game industry
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How Flash games shaped the video game industry
They were the answer to a problem: How do you preserve the impossible to preserve? Or, in other words, how do you stop time and death? Could there have been a more propitious place to begin the company that would become Unfair Games? What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?
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many games are built on top of toys.
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Another point for Jobs was that " Flash was a cross-platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod, and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross-platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms."
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“Gaming relies on technology to change content and business model more than any other media category”
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As customer acquisition costs continue to rise for developers on mobile, console, and PC — browser games will have a breakout year in 2020. Several browser-first games will go viral and have real staying power.
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Companies that attach themselves to a specific game early in their development process run the risk of being shut out by publishers or becoming niche products unable to break into other games. Some of today’s most successful gaming companies such as Twitch or Discord can attribute much of their success to being game-agnostic.