Hey good luck with everything! You're a brilliant artist and I'll respect whatever you decide to do, however incase you missed it I did send a discord DM to you offering to help develop a new game engine for further work similar to Barb/pan/helixftr/I8U/all of the other ones. Either way still love your work.

Flash content will be more interesting from now ob. Especially now that is offline. Best of luck al

Once you're done with Helixftr, what will you do next for future projects? Will you look for another animation engine based on HTML5?

Man I even started blocking Firefox and Flash updates and it /still/ knows it's supposed to be dead and refuses to run, now, like give me a break

That said, these Flash-replacement projects (Lightspark and Ruffle to name a couple) are looking promising, and Ruffle can at least open Helix/Barbftr, though it doesn't support loading external SWFs in yet so all it's really good for is Helix running around by himself.

That's alright man, no one has a solution for everything, you just have to do what you can, stay safe now!

Some info people might find useful, that I found elsewhere:

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"Adobe Flash Player browser plugins versions AFTER v32.0.0.371 have a killswitch that will activate January 12th 2020. After this date, the Flash Player plugin will actively prevent itself from playing SWF files in your browser.

However, there is a way around this.
Below is a download link to a combined archive of several different 32.0.0.371 installers. Pick the one you need and install it, then go into Flash's settings and disable automatic updates. Congratulations, you can now continue using the Flash Player plugin to watch Flash files on your web browser.
https://archive.org/download/flashp.....71_archive.zip
You'll need to use an offline installer. Otherwise it'll outright tell you you're not installing the latest version and cancel. For most Windows users that will be "flashplayer32_0r0_371_win.msi" I'm afraid I can't help Mac or Linux users, but they probably already know what they're doing anyway.

There are, of course, alternatives. Flash's own standalone projectors do not have the killswitch. You can download SWFs and run them in these projectors directly off your hard drive. You can set up file associations to have the SWFs automatically open in the projector. You can also put in an URL to run SWFs directly from the internet without having to download.
It can be found in the above URL as files with "_sa" in the filename. Windows Example: flashplayer32_0r0_371_win_sa.exe

There's also Ruffle, which is still in development, and there's even a version that doesn't require you to install any browser plugins but but is run on-demand from sites that implement it, but it isn't quite finished yet and some flashes will break.

Some Flash games are published as standalone projectors and are safe from the killswitch."

Oh, and this only works for browsers using NPAPI. I use Chrome which is PPAPI so it doesn't work there, unfortunately.

I can confirm that MacOS users can have a functioning standalone player with all the files from barbftr and variant compilations.

Simply have the standalone plugin installed, disable automatic updates, and download the Barbftr player, at least.

Just know that characters will need to be put into the 'enemies' folder and manually patched in via the external.xml file. Use the commands listed within the .xml file as a guide.

Flash on Externals like SWF player is dead too, all of my Flash files I download all show a blue F Icon and nothing else.
As Jaitsu said: Give me a break

That's strange. I tried opening a SWF file on the Flash Projector 32 I downloaded in December and it still loads content fine. Only in my browser does it give me the blue F.

gotcha, I'll try using that

If you can't find it elsewhere, the link I posted above has it - along with a bunch of other things that totals 300mb so not exactly convenient, but the "flashplayer32_0r0_371_win_sa.exe" is the Windows flash projector version that came before the killswitch was implemented, so it should continue to work in the future.

Its all good, I found it! everything works too. Thanks!

*many hugs* best of luck on the future endeavors for Helix <3
if you ever feel like streaming it sometime ill drop by picarto ^^

Another way around this iirc is a project called ruffle.rs, it's a flash emulator written in the rust programming language (hence rs), and it also has a browser plugin to re-enable flash using the emulator. It also claims to not have all the security issues that led to Flash's demise due to the nature of how it was made. They also claim it works on Android and IOS, haven't tested that though.
Just give ruffle rs a quick google.

I'm interested in it, but my test of it didn't work. The flash window was just pure white.
Granted I didn't try the standalone, I tried the Chrome plugin that is added via a developer extension, so maybe Chrome's just interfering like usual. Still, if I can only work it standalone, I might as well just use the flash projector anyway.

yea, I looked back at it, and it's still under heavy development and doesn't support most flash files made in the last ~ 5 years. It's got quite the backing though from websites like coolmathgames and newgrounds.

I'm wishing them the best of luck with it, at least. It's a tall order to fill but they do look like they got what it takes to make it happen with enough effort.

Did you try the latest version, and on Barb/Helixftr? I've got it playing in Firefox, perfectly as far as I can tell - though a lot of other flashes around FA I've been testing don't work. Apparently Ruffle supports mostly the older set of Flash features and functions at this point (AS1/2, not 3; created with Flash 9 and below) and Al's animations luckily happen to be made in Flash 8 if I recall correctly, so they're supported.

I tried the latest version on a few random flashes from e621. From what I hear, ruffle won't support most flashes that have been made in the past month or two but going further back ought to be fine, and I hadn't tried that.

I'm glad the project exists and hope it grows, but for my own personal use I want to stick to something I know will work with anything Flash-related 100% of the time, so for now that means using the standalone Flash projector.

apparently the MEGA download link doesn't like me, so is it possible for you to send another download link to it?

It sucks so much Flash is dead. But I wish you best of luck with helixftr :3

I don't know if this will work for others, but I'm able to play Flash on my phone using the Puffin app. However I already had the app installed before Flash ended so I'm not sure if it will still work if you install it now

think you could provide the files of the old games aswell?

this is something that works for flash (at least for now): https://www.howtogeek.com/438141/ho.....r-web-browser/

Well, there gotta be something to replace flash since they shut it down. If not, then I fail to understand why they did it in the first place.

Yeah you and basically everyone else.
The real reason is "we don't want to keep worrying about security updates since Flash is super vulnerable to viruses" but they didn't do anything about what's already out there.

Sounds like they didn't even try to improve it. Oh well. Hope you can do what you like without flash.

you've done more than enough alz, dont worry about it! you do you and let those that cant figure it out find someone else

Thank you for your continued dedication to your projects. We enjoy your work and would be sad to see it die with Flash. Your drive to see this through to the other side is awesome.

can you add more female characters..?