Just curious because of last year, are there any plans to not accept stuff that was/is in development for a long time outside of the jam? I don't wanna be a dick and point any fingers, but whoever was there probably remembers the minor drama that came of it.

Makes me want to buy an external CD drive so I can install my “legit” CD copy of Flash 8 I’ve had for more than a decade ago…

Finally, the moment we've been waiting for. Old school Flasharama! I love old school Flash animations and edgy Flash games a la 2000s and 10s! I wanna have Windows XP as my current desktop and listen to All I Ever Wanted and MTC by S3RL! LULZ! XD

Btw, talking 'bout Flash Forward...

Currently looking for peeps to work for free to finish my game "Ricardo Goes to War: Deluxe", basically the full-ass version of my demo of the previous Flash Forward submission "Ricardo Goes to War".

More details here: https://www.newgrounds.com/collab/view/23382

Willing to make music for anyone’s projects!!!

Can I get a list of all the newgrounds events being held this year, not including clock day.

I'd like more warning instead of a months/2weeks notice to prepare assets for something ahead of time.

I know in the past , certain "days" have been sabotaged or cancelled because bad actors made content during those days like robot day, but I'm only asking for a list of days, because im sure nothing is 100% certain

But a list of events for 2025 to plan for ahead of time would be very nice :))))

The only one Ive made games for so far is clockday because its always in august since 2001.

Like as much as I would love to drop everything right now and organize a game for flash forward; I cannot.

This wouldve been better to have known about in December during the break, and not February for instance.

nice

The calendar is the best place to look for official announcements. Some events do still need to get added on there, though.

I'm always a bit conflicted here because I like the jam motivating people to finish unfinished projects. I'll update the post to note your project should be making it's premier during the jam, though, so you can't re-release something that was released previously.

where can we find flash? is the new adobe ok?

Adobe Animate supports AS3, so you can make games and interactive movies with that. AS2 support ended after Flash CS6 and it's hard to get those older copies of Flash running without being sneaky.

where do I get the flash program? is it free?

Where do I get the flash program?

I have a question, where can I get flash so I can start?

For anyone curious, I've found CS5.5 works well, as long as you're offline when you put in your serial and offline when you open it. (and after you close it and before you reconnect to the internet, terminate all processes with cs5.5 in the name using Task Manager.) So you can definitely use Cs5.5 without any sketchy hacks you don't know if you can trust.

its a bit of a pain to be offline as you develop, but its not so bad.

if you ever are accidentally online as you use it, nothing will happen the first time, but after 2-3 times it will downgrade you to the trial version after it tries to find the long-offline activation servers. yes, even if you have the disk and serial legit next to you. so stay offline. Don't sign in with or make an adobe account. don't send feedback or usage data, etc.

I reccomend using wine as it runs okay on linux with some quirks. but if you ever fuck up and go online wine also has the benfit of having an easy nuke-it-all-and-restart option. just delete .wine and start over. (newer versions of creative suite explode shrapnel into your registry making it hard to nuke on windows. adobe was sneaky. once you're trialed, its hard to get untrialed)

you may also try a VM or some sort of solution that blocks the Flash CS5.5 from any form of internet. ymmv.

I hope this helps anyone with legit copies of CS5.5.

or ya can use flash 8 (its actually better thsn you think! just keep in mind that flash 8's AS2 is somewhat different than the revised cs5, cs6 etc's versions of AS2, some tutorials for AS2 might be broken on newer versions of non-animate editions of flash. ie some text related things may cause trouble)

if you know actionscripting, JPEXS's FFDEC also can create blank .SWF files that you can hack your stuff into. even has a 'basic mode' editor that is visually similar to the adobe editors. still an early on solution, but give it a shot

Thank you all so much for These flash jams. one of the only joys left in the world for me. don't be too harsh on yourself if you're new to flash. I banged my head against the wall for 2 years before I could ever make any simple game back then, so rest assured you're likely not stupid.

I wasn't aware that AS2 was revised for CS5 and CS6. Are there any notable changes I should be aware of or are they mostly the same?

I wasn't aware that AS2 was revised for CS5 and CS6. Are there any notable changes I should be aware of or are they mostly the same?

Yeah, its mostly the same. off the top of my head, I think there were things related to to text boxes and how data is accessed from them through actionscript. I think for the most part is was just revisions and it should mostly not be noticable, but I did want to mention that I once had issues (that I can't recall) that boiled down to that.

it might have happened earlier than cs5 even, but it definitely isn't exactly the same as flash 8

Oh my bad with the initial wording, just realized that what I said is different than this - and this is what I meant. Awesome, thanks Tom!

oh shit, awesome, was just thinking about making a little thing and was trying to decide what engine to make it in. might as well try flash!

Will Adobe blow up my house if I try to "get around" CS6's dead activation servers? I *do* have Creative Cloud installed on my machine, and god knows what that thing's monitoring.

well, i just tried macromedia flash 5 and i think it made me want to shoot myself in the brain

I don't think so, but that workaround is kinda broken, at least for cs6. What I'd suggest is the dll thing mentioned earlier in the thread. This is probably not a good place to talk about these things, though, so if you need any help or have any questions feel free to shoot me a PM.

currently trying to see if i can speedrun the flash tutorials to wrap my head around flash 8. i use unity at work so it cant be much worse than that

Hi, I'm an artist that uses Flash CS6 as one of my main programs. If anyone wants to collab on a game project for this jam, please DM me! I'm hoping to join someone's team or find a programmer for my own.

LOCK N LOAD MOTHERFUCKERS

Flash 8 doesn't have all the fancy bells and whistles CS6 has, but I say it can do anything if you're willing to get your hands dirty with a bit of ActionScript. You can pull off some neat tricks through the dozens of youtube videos I've seen. Personally, I've been looking at AS2 all wrong. It might not have the optimization AS3 has, but it is still a capable language in and out of itself. Plus I'd be a massive hypocrite to use CS6 when I hate adobe with a passion.

I just logged in to say this!

As2 is way more vast than people remember! you can do a lot of things once considered AS3 only

AS3 does have exclusive things only possible from the rewrite, but you can do quite a bit with AS2!

I also can't say I particularly reccomend Flash CS6

I've always had troubles with it regarding performance and harder to get it running with the tricks

CS5.5 is a lot better in that regard from my experience

but if you've got a copy of CS6 that works, then it'll serve you well.

if anyone needs help with getting flash, (trials without keys or hacks can still be used!) you cam PM me. (I havd a job, so be patient with me) I can't reccomend any piracy of serials though. the trials were free and will function as full versions if you have your key from back in the day but lost your disk.

The tom says he uses CS5.5 as well.

The tom says he uses CS5.5 as well.

oh, I had no idea

forget what I said, thats a more glowing reccomendation!

and can't go wrong with flash 8 (and, perhaps even MX...)

Since the first Flash Forward, we updated the Project System to default to our HTML5 API (Newgrounds.io). Last year we provided instructions to access the old Flash API but this year @Psychogoldish has something else in the pipe - we’ll be introducing Flash components that utilize our modern API! Watch this space for updates.

I am gobsmacked.

sheer shock.

Flash API but AGAIN???

WOO HOO !!

ya'll are mad. mad, I tell you!

flash really is back again...