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Flash Forward 2025 Winners!

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Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 14:26:43


The time has arrived to announce the winners of Flash Forward 2025!


This event celebrates the legacy of Flash while giving people cool new Flash games and interactive movies, playable in the browser thanks to Ruffle.


Thank you @jmtb02, @FutureCopLGF and @Dungeonation for judging assistance!


Top Five Games


🏆1st - $1200



“BoMToons hardly needs an introduction for Flash Forward - and neither does Luis for that matter, a Portal Defenders team’s Flash game is always a good time, regardless of its scope. Chess Force is just another wonderful entry of theirs, this time tackling the shoot’em’up genre, and pretty well at that! Stages are offered to you Mega Man style, yet it still feels good to upgrade your artillery against a slight difficulty shift in some stages over others! (Mega Man-ifying a shoot’em’up…BoMToons could make me interested in any game genre, as I’ve said before) The boss attacks felt pretty telegraph-able and the final boss had me grumblin’ for a slight bit before I finally took ‘im down. I played through on a Steam Deck’s web browser, but I definitely noticed performance slowed on later stages, and some stages crashing and refreshing the browser on a mobile device. I also found the mobile touch controls to be too floaty and turned me off to trying to play it initially on my phone. (Hey, I’ve been there, we all wanna believe our game’ll be a perfect experience on mobile…) However, I can of course fully recommend this year’s entry from this team, though you’ll probably need something that can keep good enough game performance going throughout!


Ooh and also, Pyragmus’ chiptunes are a wonderful fit here! (Funny story, I listened to that unused Castle Crashing the Beard music BEFORE I played Chess Force, heard it being used in Chess Force, and was like “ayyyy, there’s that song again!”)” -Dungeonation


“What an awesome SHMUP experience! While I did have some gripes with the game since I'm a huge stickler for SHMUPs, and I did run into some bugs as well, the game's overwhelming charm, amusing concept, cool boss fights and sheer spectacle where you're blasting down gigantic ships while bullets fly and explosions go off made me easily push past its foibles and enjoy the crazy ride all the way through!” -FutureCopLGF


🏆2nd - $700



“It's the right balance of ambitious new dev and gameplay, it's just fun and stands out against the others. And there's multiple levels! It's what Newgrounds is all about, right? Emerging talent. It's great.” -jmtb02


“This charming SHMUP really impressed me with how it never felt satisfied just spinning its wheels, delivering you the same wave of mooks over and over like so many beginner SHMUPs do: instead it just kept escalating the stakes every level with all new and very creative enemy types, waves, mini-bosses, special events and big bad bosses, and in doing so, it made an incredibly well-paced and spectacular experience!” -FutureCopLGF


“There’s a game on Webkinz I was fond of growing up - Dex Dangerous - which controls similarly to this Flash, so when I pulled it up and started playing it I got very excited! This game’s got some good challenge, and a bit of a control scheme learning curve with the power ups (reading the controls?? HAH, never heard of her), but it’s a fun little package regardless, and a pretty fresh take on this sort of game, with additions like boss fights! It's less arcade-y than games like it, and short considering, but that didn't detract from the good times I had with it.” -Dungeonation


🏆3rd - $400



“Just incredibly accessible and charming. Just the right length, art and play is just great. This is peak for me.” -jmtb02


“Streamlined point n’ click goodness! It’s simple: look for the candies scattered about the house, in order to save a vampire named Vampi from an ADORABLE spider who just dreams about encasing the moon in silk while napping, awww. How could ya vanquish such an adorable spindly thing like that? But you must. It feels like Guy-Unger has DONE a simple point n’ click Flash before in Flash Forwards’ past, but nay - this appears to be the first! It’s visually appealing in looks as well as how it’s animated, and it also feels great to just click around and on things, being decently responsive outside of some things that just display some response text on the screen briefly.” -Dungeonation


“What a cute little adventure game! I'll admit that it's rather simple and doesn't have much meat on its bones, but I nevertheless enjoyed all the quirky animations and amusing interactions in my short-but-sweet time with it!” -FutureCopLGF


🏆4th - $150



“Maybe I'm biased because I'm rekindling my love for RTS recently, but this game really blew me away! I was seriously impressed at how smooth and intuitive the units were to control, and the way the game escalates in introducing new enemy types and formations while granting you all sorts of new guns and powers to play with made for a very addictive, challenging and strategic gameplay loop! The edgy humor as well takes me right back to tasting that old-school Newgrounds flavor, mm-mmm!” -FutureCopLGF


🏆5th - $100



“I got MAD at this game for making me laugh, ‘cuz it’s DISARMING for a spooky game! Like, there are definitely games that blend humor and horror together, that’s nothing new, but the way Fun Home does it makes you exhale with relief but then quickly go “Wait, no, come onnnn, it’s not the time for this right now! We’re in spookytime!” It’s pretty effective and a wonderful treat overall with what we got so far of the game. Deathink is a dang funny guy and a very talented artist and pixel artist, the homages to NES graphics scattered throughout feel great, and you can really appreciate the work he took learning ActionScript 3 in order to make this! The keyboard control scheme is supposed to mimic a controller layout, but I wasn’t a big fan of it, though that is a small criticism! My advice for more parts would be: keep it ridiculous, but juuust aggravatingly ridiculous enough!” -Dungeonation


“It was over before I knew it so it was a tad bit unsatisfying, but that's only because as a proof-of-concept, it was so well-done it made me excited and hungry for the eventual second chapter of this very promising stalker horror game, so hungry I wish I could play it right now, now, now!” -FutureCopLGF


Honorable Mentions


Riddle School fans were eating good this year, with two fan games!



Keep reading below for the Movies with Interactive Elements winners!


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Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Top Three Movies with Interactive Elements


🏆1st - $150



“It's great to see a sequel to the Whicher, and I was very impressed on how it has been expanded into a full-on choose-your-own-adventure with all sorts of choices to make that lead to all sorts of crazy endings. The humor is top-notch as well with all sorts of absurd events and animations, and I loved just how much sheer mileage it got from misinterpreting the meaning of words!” -FutureCopLGF


🏆2nd - $100



“This was a pretty neat toybox that's fun to mess around in, reminding me a lot of those goofy edutainment games for kids that are filled with all sorts of doodads to click and watch how they react. While it didn't have an investigative purpose or goal, exploring the various web pages was nevertheless amusing, especially when they had hidden goodies like the Abandonwear link to find.” -FutureCopLGF


🏆3rd - $50



“Nabella turned their friend's OC into an old computer, one that has found its way to my heart (Totally not biased with computer/robot characters like that at all). Pick a floppy disk, and see a little animation with varying degrees of interactivity appear on her screen! The sounds are great, the outline-less visual style is great, and everything feels really good and responsive to click on and interact with. Make sure ya give certain floppy disks multiple looks for slight differences! And give 'em all a look, while you're at it!” -Dungeonation


“While I wish it had more short interactable games like it did for the final selections, this DVD-chapter-select-looking collection of movies was a fun diversion and tied together nicely with the cute interface design. From what I've heard, pseudo DVD menus with little animations are the next big genre to plague the indie scene like rogue-likes and deck-builders, so we're witnessing the future here!” -FutureCopLGF


Honorable Mention


Flash is still great for creating a good ‘ol epic art collab!



Thank you everyone who made something for Flash Forward 2025, keeping the dream of Flash alive!


Thank you to our sponsors!


@matt-likes-swords - $500

@carbonlad - $500

@Lochie - $420.69

@BoMToons - $250

@Zombie-Pimp - $150

@wheezl - $100

@The-EXP - $100

@EdChar - $100

Team Sea3on - $100

@FutureCopLGF - $50

@53xy83457 - $50

@HazmatVT - $50

@Aalasteir - $30

@Unicronicorn - $30

@Dungeonation - $20

@RileyVerse - $20

@Anamonator - $10

@ZombieGhost - $10

@TecNoir - $10

@ItzJustKey - $10

@Superstrike11 - $10

@Webtoon - $5

@Wegra - $1

Newgrounds - $300


Flash Forward will return in 2026! We recently introduced controller mapping for Flash games and intend to have our modern Newgrounds.io API ready for AS3 games next year. Ruffle itself will continue to advance in the months ahead, meaning lots of great potential for next year’s games! 


If you’d like to help things along, you can sponsor ongoing Ruffle development or get involved in other ways like code and testing. You can also test games on NG for Ruffle compatibility in the Ruffle Testing / Flash Preservation Crew.


See you next year! Flash Forward 2026 prize fundraising will kick off in January.


Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 14:29:02


Congratulations to every who won! Happy 5th Anniversary to Flash forward and let’s keep flash alive for generations to come!


Currently working on a cartoon this summer. Stay tuned I guess. Heh.

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Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 14:30:29


I'm so happy my money helped to motivate someone out there to keep up and I hope you spend it on anything you like.


ZombieGhost


Great selection of games and movies. This has been an inspiring Flash Forward Jam!


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Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 14:54:33


Like the daily lineups, I've got some personal highlights I can pick out in here.

Personal Favourite Game for FF25 goes to Chess Force:

It may have taken some time for me to warm up to it (the framerate issues and buggy saves were a ballache and a half on launch), but once all the kinks got worked out, this quickly became one of my favourite games this year. Absolute goddamn blast from start to finish, thanks to excellent gameplay from @BoMToons, beautiful pixel-art visuals from @Luis and banger Amiga-style chiptune tracks from @Pyragmus. Fantastic work from all three of you - your $1.2k was very well-earned


For Personal Favourite Interactive Movie, its none other than Windowz 98 NetTowns Edition:

This was a fucking BEHEMOTH of a Flash Forward entry, and a loving "warts and all" tribute to the Internet of old, which isn't afraid to show off or poke fun at the 'Net's darker or weirder corners. Trust me, you could get lost for literal hours in the seemingly infinite sites this lovingly-crafted pre-Y2K tribute has to offer.


The Honorable Mention's already been mentioned, but it felt right to mention the Character Select Collab again:

This three-hundred megabyte monster of a collab (trust me, I downloaded the .swf to check), is packed to the brim with a metric shitton of excellent artwork - simply loading this thing strains my laptop (and likely NG's servers), but it is well worth it for a collab which brings both quality and quantity.


If Newgrounds ever raises its filesize limit in the future, I know who to blame. (Sidenote: This could probably double as a good stresstest for Ruffle...)


Happy fifth anniversary to Flash Forward, and congrats to the winners!


he/they - pretty cool guy - yt channel here

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:00:29


I'd like to make a full version of Faceless Assassin. Flash of course is the engine it'd feel right at home, but I'm open to other engines and making it a full release ditty. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/977306

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:05:20


Stuff like this reminds I need to play more of the games on this website, I like fnf after all so why not try some others.


I'm proud of everyone who's won, good luck to you all.


The ball is in the wall, fetch

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:21:14


I can sense the swag planets away X3


they did pretty well and they all get gold stars ☆ミヽ(=゚ω゚)/

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:24:26


It’s always so wonderful to see everyone’s new Flash year after year, thank you to everyone who participates and congrats to all who won!


(GIF by @MKMaffo)

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Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:30:39


3RD PLACE!!!!!! 🍾🍾🍾🍾🥉🥉🥉🥉


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Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:31:47


Congratulations to the winners.

it was fun participating!

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:33:16


Congrats to the winners! There were a lot of great games and movies this year. Glad to see flash forward still going.


Just call me Blake :)

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Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:38:43


Congrats folks!

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:43:32


Wow, I came second! 🏆😍

And congratulations everyone else, all very deserved!

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 15:50:45


Oh let's go! I got an honorable mention!

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 16:00:14


heh, flashing the forwards

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 16:01:26


WOOHOO! Congrats to all of the Flash Forward 2025 winners! :D


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At 5/28/25 02:26 PM, TomFulp wrote:


🏆5th - $100

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/977227

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Thank you so much for 5th place!! And the reward! (check my signature lol)


"A reward is it's own reward." - Killgar

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 16:28:01


congratulations to every winner :D

everyone were so creative as always :]


I like knights :]

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sweeet

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 16:47:56


Well congratulations to the winners. I know I can do a better game next year.


Join the Tankmen Tribute Collab

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Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 17:14:08


Congrats to everyone who won

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 17:23:24


Whicher 2 was well deserved.


If I offer to help you in a post, PM me to get it. I often forget to revisit threads.

Want 180+ free PSP games? Try these links! - Flash - Homebrew (OFW)

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 17:36:06


making adobe regret phasing out flash every year more and more. cheers! absolutely lovely winners! had a very fun time with some of 'em


HOLD ON FOR THE NORTHERN STAR

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Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 18:55:02


Wow! What a Flash Foward! Congrats to @BoMToons and @Luis for snagging #1, and Congrats to @Kolumbo and team for getting 2nd Place! Also congrats to @53xy83457, @Aalasteir, and team as well!


And Congrats to the rest of the Winners! 💖


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At 5/28/25 05:23 PM, Kwing wrote:Whicher 2 was well deserved.


Big agree.


[1] - [2]

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 19:57:54


Long live Flash. Macromedia Flash MX 2004 specifically since that’s what I use hehe.


Thanks to everyone who played our game 💋


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Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 20:52:12


Congrats everyone and thanks for voting for CHESS FORCE!


Huge shoutout to @Luis and @Pyragmus for delivering quality art, animation, and music!


Thank you @TomFulp for keeping the Flash fires burning with another year of NEW Flash games!


I added this award to the trailer for the game :-3


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFq6W9EMOtA

Response to Flash Forward 2025 Winners! 2025-05-28 21:36:14


At 5/28/25 02:26 PM, TomFulp wrote:Top Three Movies with Interactive Elements

🏆1st - $150

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/977277

“It's great to see a sequel to the Whicher, and I was very impressed on how it has been expanded into a full-on choose-your-own-adventure with all sorts of choices to make that lead to all sorts of crazy endings. The humor is top-notch as well with all sorts of absurd events and animations, and I loved just how much sheer mileage it got from misinterpreting the meaning of words!” -FutureCopLGF

🏆2nd - $100

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/977308

“This was a pretty neat toybox that's fun to mess around in, reminding me a lot of those goofy edutainment games for kids that are filled with all sorts of doodads to click and watch how they react. While it didn't have an investigative purpose or goal, exploring the various web pages was nevertheless amusing, especially when they had hidden goodies like the Abandonwear link to find.” -FutureCopLGF

🏆3rd - $50

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/977258

“Nabella turned their friend's OC into an old computer, one that has found its way to my heart (Totally not biased with computer/robot characters like that at all). Pick a floppy disk, and see a little animation with varying degrees of interactivity appear on her screen! The sounds are great, the outline-less visual style is great, and everything feels really good and responsive to click on and interact with. Make sure ya give certain floppy disks multiple looks for slight differences! And give 'em all a look, while you're at it!” -Dungeonation

“While I wish it had more short interactable games like it did for the final selections, this DVD-chapter-select-looking collection of movies was a fun diversion and tied together nicely with the cute interface design. From what I've heard, pseudo DVD menus with little animations are the next big genre to plague the indie scene like rogue-likes and deck-builders, so we're witnessing the future here!” -FutureCopLGF

Honorable Mention

Flash is still great for creating a good ‘ol epic art collab!

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/976351

Thank you everyone who made something for Flash Forward 2025, keeping the dream of Flash alive!

Thank you to our sponsors!

@matt-likes-swords - $500
@carbonlad - $500
@Lochie - $420.69
@BoMToons - $250
@Zombie-Pimp - $150
@wheezl - $100
@The-EXP - $100
@EdChar - $100
Team Sea3on - $100
@FutureCopLGF - $50
@53xy83457 - $50
@HazmatVT - $50
@Aalasteir - $30
@Unicronicorn - $30
@Dungeonation - $20
@RileyVerse - $20
@Anamonator - $10
@ZombieGhost - $10
@TecNoir - $10
@ItzJustKey - $10
@Superstrike11 - $10
@Webtoon - $5
@Wegra - $1
Newgrounds - $300

Flash Forward will return in 2026! We recently introduced controller mapping for Flash games and intend to have our modern Newgrounds.io API ready for AS3 games next year. Ruffle itself will continue to advance in the months ahead, meaning lots of great potential for next year’s games!

If you’d like to help things along, you can sponsor ongoing Ruffle development or get involved in other ways like code and testing. You can also test games on NG for Ruffle compatibility in the Ruffle Testing / Flash Preservation Crew.

See you next year! Flash Forward 2026 prize fundraising will kick off in January.

This is my favorite site art so far, it's a shame I can't view it on it's own


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