Hi Newgrounds!

I know it has been 10 years since I last posted here. After making Flash games in my teens, I then had a bit of a rough start in “real life”. But I later studied Computer Science and found my way somehow.

Thank you for all of the love you have sent me over the years. It’s amazing to still get messages 10 years later from people that enjoyed my games. It’s been so long that it feels as if a version of myself from a parallel universe made these games.

I’m going to make stuff again! Not games specifically, but anything in this big beautiful world that catches my interest.

I wrote a visual article about the explosion of creativity during the Flash games era and how it influenced today's video game industry. It’s amazing how many lives Flash touched. So many developers still feel like Flash was the most amazing thing that ever happened to them in their creative careers.

You can read the article here: www.flashgamehistory.com

For building today’s platforms and technologies, it is important to remember what made Flash great, but it is at risk of being forgotten because Flash will no longer be supported after December 2020. 

I don’t think there’s a reason why an explosion of accessible, experimental, short, strange and beautiful games can’t happen again. There are so many creative, smart and talented people out there building today’s platforms and technologies. If more people learn about what a great enabler Flash was and which things we had back then that are still missing from today’s technologies, then I have no doubt that we will see some amazing new tools in the future!

-Jonas