Games @sh.itjust.works nanoUFO @sh.itjust.works 8 mo. ago

This Flash developer is battling 18 years of legacy code to bring my childhood favorite platformers to Steam (Fancy Pants Adventures)

www.pcgamer.com This Flash developer is battling 18 years of legacy code to bring my childhood favorite platformers to Steam

18 years later, you can still run fast, run fancy.

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This made me login to my newgrounds account and there are people reviewing my games from 2023. I did not expect to find people still playing the stupid shit I made almost 20 years ago, what a nice feeling. Nothing as popular as fancy pants, but still I'm happy.
- It's amazing that Newgrounds is essentially as strong as it ever was. Sure it's small time now but the activity level is still about the same
  
  _It's _the _porn.
- Link to games and are you still making games?
O god o fuck.

I love this game. Favourite platformer. I would play this and the second one all the time.
- Lol - i picture you now playing this, like if told by kilgrave to do so.
  
  Unrelated but is your pfp Daria?
I'm not sure late zoomers will understand that Flash was like the Windows of the internet. Everything used it. Youtube used it. Your fucking bank used it. The current state of Flash is like if we just stopped using video cards, and old games no longer worked so good if they relied on that clunky old RTX 4080.
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Very cool but I feel like it would be better served by porting away from flash
- I don't get why they can't just be run in this https://ruffle.rs/
  
  I think ruffle makes more sense if they weren't actively developing it and just wanted a straight port of the originals.
  
  Probably would result in a less than optimal user experience since it is still in development and has bugs and graphical glitches especially on Later Flash games (Actionscript 3).
I have the classic pack and it runs amazingly well (playing mostly on a Steam Deck), it's super smooth. The Steam version is how your memory remembers the game being like - if you go back and play the Flash version, you'll quickly realize how much our memory isn't reliable lol
Chances are your pants are not as fancy as the pair

Of very fancy pants that Mr. Fancy Pants will wear

When everybody's marching in the fancy pants parade

He's gonna pass the test, he's gonna be the best

The best in terms of pants
I feel like this game got me through secondary school. What a treasure

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