4/1/2024 0 Comments Bunni how we first met gone![]() ![]() The game’s two developers Dan and Andre never saw eye-to-eye: Dan wanted to do a satire of materialistic love, while Andre made something way more flippant and then disappeared into the Outback. ![]() Bunni disappeared from the web in 2014, and the saga of how the game was made, lost, and recovered is terrific. On last week’s episode of the podcast Reply All, 20-year-old Serbian listener Kris shared how she found the lost Flash game Bunni: How We First Met. Or, really, whose history should be told. It’s about recognizing the value of disposable culture and embracing more perspectives on what history should be told. ![]() The importance isn’t specific developers or publishers or games. We have to remember why we’re trying to save all that. The mission to preserve Flash content is enormous – not only creating a free, open way for modern browsers to understand Flash (like Mozilla’s abandoned Shumway project) but also finding websites with Flash content that will probably disappear soon. Thousands and thousands of Flash games exist, and like any creative works, keeping them accessible is a worthwhile endeavor. Gigantic collections, like nearly the entire library of the game platform Kongregate, will rapidly become obsolete. When Adobe announced plans to discontinue Flash earlier this year, people rightly mourned that we’d soon lose the ability to easily play over two decades of amateur games and animation. ![]()
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