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This is a really fun and cute flash game you can play and create your oc I made my oc along with my sister’s here’s the link: http://4as.deviantart.com/art/Too-Many-Ponies-Create-Your-OC-Edition-Flash-508402637

update to the lost Flash prototype version of Fruit Ninja

so a long time ago, i made a post talking about this version of Fruit Ninja i discovered and later found out to be lost media. it's the original prototype version of the game, and it was available to play on the old Fruit Ninja Anniversary website from 2017 onward. Luke Muscat talked about it in his video 'How I Designed Fruit Ninja', and he shows footage of it at 4:41 seconds. in the original post i made about the site, i found an archive from 2021, tried to fetch the file from the site, got hit with a CORS policy error and found out that the place the network was trying to fetch the file from was turning up with a 404. yesterday and today, i've been trying to work around the CORS policy error by disabling web security on my browser, but i've turned up with absolutely no luck.

for those unaware, a CORS policy (or Cross Origin Resource Sharing policy) is basically a something that allows or disallows a browser to access an asset from a domain that differs from the original domain. there's a website on Mozilla that explains this better than i could, but the way i understand it is that if your browser tries to make a request to fetch something that's hosted on a website but originates from another domain (say, a file sharing website), its regulated by the CORS policy to make sure the site you're fetching this information from is secure. if it's allowed, the content loads normally. if it isn't, the request to fetch that content is ignored (at least i think that's how it works). this, along with the 404, was what was stopping me from being able to fetch the swf from the site.

so, here's the main update: i can't find it. i've tried everything i know how to. disabling web security lead to the discovery that the swf itself was hosted on a separate URL from the main Fruit Ninja Anniversary website that apparently wasn't archived on the IA, and it was also being stopped by the CORS policy. punching that URL into the Wayback Machine turns up with a snapshot from 2022 that's just a 404, and since the Wayback Machine works by fetching every available snapshot of that URL it has in its library to load the content, it's always fetching that specific snapshot, and that's why it can't load the. no matter what archive of the Anniversary page i use, it's gone. it's lost-lost. i've even checked the self-hosted version of the Fruit Ninja Anniversary website on seanockert.com, but it's not there either. the only real options i have are scraping through every single Flash game archive i can find and hoping that someone saved it (which is a very low possibility), or to ask the original developer if they can send a copy my way (and even then, that option is an absolute last resort if nothing else works). i am pretty desperate at this point to find this thing and i'll look through everything i can to try to find it.

also, just to clear some extra stuff up: none of the Fruit Ninja games on Flashpoint are the prototype. none of them were made in Flash and they don't match up with the prototype. it was my first place to look and it unfortunately isn't there. additionally, the name of the swf file hosted on the Fruit Ninja Anniversary site is 'FruitNinjaHBF2010.swf'. searching this on the IA didn't bring up any results, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not on there in some way. i'm really hoping this'll turn up again and that it's stashed away on the internet somewhere.

update 2: made a twitter thread! i hope this catches some more attention on there, i don't use twitter so this topic will be the only thing i post on that account.

There's No Turning Back In An Art Game?

Here's a list of some arty flash games that I like, so I can forget all about them for six months and then be like "What was that one game that I liked? You know, the arty one? Oh that's right, I made a list!"

One Chance

A game that you can only play once (unless you cheat). Every living thing on Earth will be dead in six days, thanks to a deadly compound you created. What choices will you make and what good will they do?

  Every Day the Same Dream

One of the granddaddies of art games. "One Chance" borrowed a lot of its look and interface from this game.

You Only Live Once

Another game you can only play once.  A somber look at the dangers of vigilantism and improperly constructed Boss levels.

But That Was [Yesterday]

Wordless and touching.

Loved

This one is aggravating as all hell, but in a really interesting way.

I Wish I Were the Moon

Simple but adorable.

The Majesty of Colors

You are a giant squid monster discovering the world of people.  Do you treat them nicely, or not?

Runners-up (because apparently this was a contest): Looming, Johnny Why Are You Late? (a parody of Every Day the Same Dream), Johnny In An Art Game? (a parody of One Chance).

Have you played Loved yet?

trying to play valthirian arc ii but every time I try to go on a hunt I get stuck on the loading screen forever and have to close and reopen the game so all I can do is errand quests: wow what a weird idle game

you talk in the tags about valthirian arc 2 and how it's different on the switch/steam so I feel the need to inform you that yes, it is different, and this is because it is not ported, it is fully a new game in the series!

idk if you're thinking about valthirian arc: hero school story or valthirian arc: hero school story 2, but both are sequels to valthirian arc and valthirian arc 2. I do agree that I like the art best for valthirian arc 2 out of all the games, but valthirian arc: hero school story is actually pretty good! honestly I think they put a lot more effort into the plot than before and that's cool. I haven't played valthirian arc: hero school story 2 yet but I'm definitely planning to.

also, you can still find valthirian arc and valthirian arc 2 in flash archives! I use flashpoint and the only glitch I've run into for valthirian arc 2 is that it won't let me send students on one specific errand quest (everything else is fine). apparently the 2nd one is also on newgrounds, so you might be able to play it without even downloading something (although there are a lot of comments that suggest it may have issues working well).

The death of flash still haunts me.

I’ve waited so long to post this.

Just played moshi monsters rewritten for like 4 hours straight my brain has been deep fried