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June 4, 2010

Manufactoria

Finite state machines, the video game. Currently sapping productivity at Slide.

May 28, 2010

Smokescreen

Holy crap, this is a cunning hack! Renders (some) SWFs in browser without the Flash plugin, using Canvas and JavaScript. Works (albeit somewhat slowly) on iPhones and iPads. Gonna be interesting to see if Adobe buy this up.

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February 9, 2010

Glitch

Glitch, the forthcoming multiplayer game from some ex-Flickr-folks. Looks gorgeous, although my MacBook’s fan is already whirring at the prospect of all that Flash gameplay.

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January 13, 2010

Gordon - An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG

Holy shit! SWFs rendered without a plugin. Obviously, this has limited use at the moment, but there’s some great potential for allowing Flash devs to make animations that run on iPhones’ web browsers.

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December 3, 2009

Continuity

Clever Flash slidingpuzzleplatformer.

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November 4, 2009

Mocking^2 Bird

Mockingbird, a new wireframe webapp, boasts:

Powered by Cappuccino: no Flash needed.

John Gruber writes:

It’s a true web app (no Flash), written in Cappuccino

Gentlemen, your excitement over skipping Flash is hugely misplaced.

If you load the app, you can see custom scrollbars and navigation, a complete lack of accessibility, non-native controls, and all those other things that cause geeks to hate Flash. What, to the end user, is the benefit of this being done with JavaScript instead of Flash? You can get the patronage of the 0.000001% of web users who don’t have Flash installed? (Sadly, I don’t think Richard Stallman needs many wireframes drawn)

Gruber’s definition of “true web app” and mine greatly differ. Clue: If it’s completely unusable on the iPhone Safari browser, it doesn’t matter if it’s built in JavaScript, Flash or Microsoft Visual Fortran 2012. It’s not a “true web app”

October 5, 2009

Canabalt

Rather ace Flashgame, now available for the iPhone. Interesting sidenote: Reviews in iTunes are rather overwhelmed by their stupid decision to include a review in the app description containing the word “faggotry”.

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September 1, 2009

CANABALT

Rather fun and challenging Flash platformer. The only control is Jump.

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August 10, 2009

You Only Live Once

Another meta Flash game. Keep refreshing the page once you’ve “finished”.

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This Is The Only Level

A worthy follow-up to “Achievement Unlocked”. One level Flash game, playable many MANY different ways.

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August 2, 2009

How Different Groups Spend Their Day

Outstanding interactive infographic from the New York Times. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on how Americans spend their time, sliceable by demographic sectors.

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July 23, 2009

ClickToFlash

OS X Safari users: Install this! Blocks Flash until you click on the object in Safari (and other WebKit-based applications). A way to mitigate the risk of the Flash exploit without completely nuking Flash Player from your machine.

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US-CERT: Adobe Flash vulnerability

All current versions of Flash Player are remotely exploitable on all platforms. “This vulnerability is being actively exploited.” Only workaround is to uninstall Flash Player.

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May 7, 2009

Today I Die

Another lovely piece of Flash game poetry from Daniel Benmergui.

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April 27, 2009

W I N D O S i L L

So much imagination in one little game. Only $3, and well worth it if you like flashgames like Grow Cube or Feed the Head.

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April 24, 2009

Honda Insight - Let It Shine on Vimeo

A nice enough advert, but the Flash design by Vimeo to enhance it is gorgeous and unexpected.

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April 21, 2009

iccm-1.org

Answering the question: If God created Flash intros, would they be AWESOME or what?

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January 28, 2009

Closure.

Awesome atmospheric platformer, where you can only stand on what you can see.

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December 21, 2008

Faux Fire

THE MOST IMPORTANT WEBSITE YOU’LL SEE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!

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December 9, 2008

Dangeresque - Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque

Short, fun, Flash approximation of ye olde LucasArts adventures from Homestar Runner. Ace!

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December 2, 2008

Papervision - Augmented Reality

If you have a webcam/iSight, you *must* try this. Print out a symbol and make a 3D friend appear in your life!

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November 29, 2008

Auditorium

Gorgeous swooshy musical flashgame

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November 24, 2008

Doom

The original shareware version of Doom, cross-compiled (not emulated) into a Flash app. Not quite playable on my Mac (pressing Space fires the gun instead of opening doors), but still pretty danged impressive.

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October 9, 2008

You Fell Asleep Watching a DVD

I am strikingly familiar with this.

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September 23, 2008

Wario Land - Shake It! YouTube ad

Brilliantly-done ad for the new Wario game for Wii. Seems dull to start, but worth continuing with!

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May 31, 2008

Read at Work

Classic literature, camouflaged for reading at your desk. About the only time I’ve liked Flash’s full screen view for anything other than video watching.

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May 26, 2008

Music Catch

Gentle quick and fun flash game, with lovely piano accompaniment.

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May 23, 2008

Owls - Weebl's Stuff

I try hard to resist linking to every single animation Weebl posts, but this one was too good not to share.

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May 7, 2008

Chronotron

Excellent time-travel-based platformer — interact with past versions of your actions to solve puzzles.

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March 23, 2008

Arsecandle on Sea - MyMiniCity

Lovely little piece of web frivolity — You start with an empty patch of land, which only grows into a city as people visit the page. If you could embed this on your own site, it’d be awesome.

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February 27, 2008

GROW CUBE

Why I was late for work this morning. Excellently addictive flash-puzzle.

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January 3, 2008

Cursor*10 (nekogames)

Fun flash game where how you play now defines how well you do on subsequent rounds.

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November 6, 2007

HEMA - online winkelen

Completely lovely animation on a Dutch e-commerce site.

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November 3, 2007

Good Things Should Never End - Orange's Unlimited Web Page

Lovely flowing Flash oddness from Orange.

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October 8, 2007

Science Museum - Launchball

Addictivating little Impossible-Machine-like physics flashgame from the Science Museum in London.

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October 1, 2007

BBC NEWS | Adobe challenges word on the web

Congrats to the folks at Virtual Ubiquity. They’ve created a kick-ass application.

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September 20, 2007

Buzzword

A *real* WYSYWIG word processor for the web. Flash-based, and really rather gorgeous. I’ve seen demos at various Boston geek events over the last few months, and it’s turned out excellently.

July 25, 2007

Human Brain Cloud

Massively-multiplayer word association game. The Flash graphs are particularly gorgeous.

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July 7, 2007

The iPhone Threat to Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Real, BREW, Symbian

Well thought-out list of reasons why Flash might not make it to the iPhone. I really, really don’t want Flash on the iPhone: Existing Flash apps and games won’t play nice with the iPhone’s finger, keyboard and multitouch interface, and I’d rather see new AJAX-based web-apps built.

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June 21, 2007

Geni - Everyone's Related

Really cool social family-tree building software. Allows you to invite your relatives to help build up the tree.

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June 15, 2007

Cameroid - Take photos with your webcam online!

Online Flash version of OS X’s “Photo Booth”. Lotsa fun.

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May 19, 2007

Cat with Bow Golf

The most fun you’ll have with a cat and a bow this weekend. (Unless you actually have a cat and a bow. In which case, that’ll probably be more fun)

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April 23, 2007

Feed the Head

Pleasantly mindless Flash fun.

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April 6, 2007

CHICK CHICK BOOM

Fun Flashgame from Nintendo. Are they prototyping ideas for console games using Flash? This could easily be a great two-player DS game.

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March 21, 2007

Desktop Tower Defense

Excellent Flash strategy-ish game which cost me about 20 minutes of productivity. So far.

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March 1, 2007

Sprout

Relaxed, attractive Flash logic puzzle. A lovely way to fill five minutes.

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February 27, 2007

The Impossible Quiz Deluxe by =Splapp-me-do on deviantART

Trick questions, logical traps, and just general evilness. Takes an age to download and get going, but it’s plenty of fun.

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swfIR: swf Image Replacement

Cunning use of Flash and Javascript to enable “special effects” (borders, rotation and shadows) on images in web pages cleanly.

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January 4, 2007

Picnik

Wicked nifty-cool Flash-based photo editor for Flickr. Sign up on the webpage, and you should get access within minutes. Tip: Clicking on the Picnik logo in the top-left puts you into full-screen mode.

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finetune wii player

Finetune, Boston-based music streaming playlist geezers, have a nice Flash-based player designed with the Wii web browser in mind.

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December 23, 2006

WiiCade.com - Flash Games on your Nintendo Wii

Flash games designed to be played on the Wii’s Internet Channel. What a clever way of getting “homebrew” games onto the Wii!

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December 21, 2006

kdice.com - multiplayer risk like strategy

Online multiplayer simplified-Risk. This is going to consume my time, I know it!

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December 20, 2006

You Don't Know Jack - BETA | The Trivia Game Where High Culture and Pop Culture Collide

Jellyvision are releasing new web-based “DisOrDat” each weekday. If you know whether the “Denver Nuggets” are a basketball team, or a dish made with animal testicles, then this is the game for you.

December 16, 2006

TuneGlue | Relationship Explorer

Yet another Flash musicmap explorer. This one’s from EMI and uses Last.fm relationship data.

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December 1, 2006

RED

Splendid Missile-Command-esque game. Just the thing to play when you’re procastinatingly putting-off writing your annual self-evaluation form at work.

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November 22, 2006

Test your musical skills in 6 minutes!

Research project from the music & neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel Deaconess. Test your musical memory.

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October 28, 2006

Irritating Game

“Which Uses 100% of Your Brain” Goddamn, this is tough.

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October 27, 2006

whitney music box

Trippy flash “music box”. With some chemicals, this could make for hours of entertainment.

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September 29, 2006

Sling - An Edis Brothers Game from Ezone.com

A splendidly simple little flashgame.

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August 15, 2006

yes.com visualization

See what’s playing on radio stations across the USA, in realtime.

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August 5, 2006

Goggles :: The Google Maps flight sim

Swoop over the world in this little flashapp powered by the Google Maps graphics.

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July 24, 2006

MotherLoad

A splendidly fun flashgame, drilling down for minerals, and returning to the surface before you run out of fuel, whilst cashing in the minerals and upgrading your driller. I could see me getting quite addicted to this!

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July 5, 2006

Gliffy.com - Create and share diagrams online

Free online Visio-a-like. Includes flowchart, network diagram, roomplan and UI templates, which, let’s face it, should be enough for about 90% of Visio users.

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June 27, 2006

LEVERS

Funky Flashgame. Try to balance out the random objects until nothing’s touching the water.

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June 12, 2006

Musicovery : webRadio

Yet Another Flash Music Discovery App. Really like the “Dark/Calm/Positive/Energetic” axes.

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June 5, 2006

Animator vs. Animation

Flash objects fight back.

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May 21, 2006

10 Ways: Information

Hypnotic infinitely recursive photomosaics.

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May 15, 2006

Fancy Pants Adventure

Enjoyable hand-drawn Flash platformer.

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April 7, 2006

ESPN Baseball Gamecast

ESPN Baseball Gamecast

This flash app on ESPN's MLB site is simply lovely. Just enough information to follow the game, with handy infographics showing the pitches and plays.

I'm currently watching stuff recorded on my TiVo with my laptop next to me, displaying the gamecast. When I see something exciting's happening, I can drop to live TV and watch the game. Hooray for technology.

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March 21, 2006

rrrrthats5rs.com » Don’t Shoot the Puppy

The funniest flashgame I’ve played in ages. Can you work out the secret to not shooting the puppy?

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February 20, 2006

Weebls Stuff - Ultimate Showdown

Excellent flash animation and tune. Not made by Weebl, just hosted by him.

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January 10, 2006

Weebls Stuff - 100

The awesomely inexplicable Weeble & Bob makes it to 100 episodes. Hooray.

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November 2, 2005

YackPack

Hrmm… Not sure about this one. All the social awkwardness of leaving voicemails, with the technical complexity of trying to get a microphone working on your PC.

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October 20, 2005

Damn cool illusion

Hadn’t seen this one before. See pink dots disappear before your eyes.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.