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Yeah, it's really not. That entire segment that Flash games owned doesn't exist any more in the same way that it did.

The closest thing would be the mobile games like Candy Crush and Garden Saga, but even there the tide has passed, and it's too difficult to make anything - King was bought by Activision for 6 billion dollars.

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There were several major indie games that started out in Flash and ended up on consoles. Alien Homind, N++, and Castle Crashers come to mind, in particular. They were pretty great games. Castle Crashers on Xbox 360 was a favorite of my roommates.

> That entire segment that Flash games owned doesn't exist any more in the same way that it did.

Really? Or did move to a platform like App Store/Steam. I’ve seen it quantified and there’s a absurd amount of new games posted daily. I won’t argue that the tools in use are easier or better than flash, but developers certainly pivoted or so it seems. From a laymen/consumer perspective, Browsing the App Store doesn’t feel much different that I remember Kongregate or some of the other big flash game sites of the past.

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