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With Flash being taken behind the shed out back at the end of the year, it really does feel like the golden age of the internet is officially over, with the internet now turning entirely into a corporate hegemony with no attempt for anything that isn't monetized.
Is this how the cowboys felt?-
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One of my favorite indie devs Pixeljam got featured in a gaming magazine back in 2004 or thereabouts just with a little flash game called Ratmaze they made in their free time; that kinda thing absolutely doesn't happen these days. The indie game scene hardly even existed back then -- nowadays it's super competitive and a struggle to get noticed at all. Most flash games were just made on a dev's free time and the money came afterwards, if at all, in the form of site revenue; later on down the line websites like Armor Games or Miniclip would strike publishing deals with larger flash devs to fund their games for the site.
If you haven't heard already, there's a player called Flashpoint and it's a big archive you can download of pretty much every flash game in existence. Course, not very many new flash games being made, but the classics will always be classics.
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