How has Poki grown and changed over those four years? : We last spoke with you around four years ago following the launch of Color Switch on your platform. To find out more about why it's preserving these games, we spoke with Poki co-founder Michiel van Amerongen and other members of the team - as well as Nitrome's Mat Annal - about the technical challenges of saving these games and why it's good business for everyone involved. Preservation efforts for Flash games are well underway, and web gaming platform Poki is significantly stepping up its own efforts by partnering with Nitrome, now a respected mobile studio, and adding 100 of the developer's old Flash titles to the platform. It's not been available on mobile for eight years since Android dropped it in its 4.1 release.īut not all hope is lost.

The world has changed drastically since then, and now Flash games are a dying breed - not least because most modern browsers no longer support them.

For some of us, Flash games were one of the first introductions to the world of games - short, silly titles played in browsers around the world, often built by hobbyists with a bright idea and some spare time.

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