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Quinn’s Q&A: The End of Flash

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By Flipline_Tony, December 21, 2020 10:47 am


	Question 1: What’s happening with Flash Player?

Answer 1:
As you may know, all of our games on our website are built with Flash, and have been designed to be played in browsers that have the Adobe Flash Player plugin. Flash Player gave us the ability to create games that anyone could play right from our website over the last 14 years, and allowed us to distribute those games across hundreds of websites to reach a massive audience and develop a group of amazing fans!

Sadly, while Flash has been a part of the Web for over two decades, the companies that make all of the popular web browsers have now decided to remove the Flash Player plugin from their browsers, and Adobe officially announced that Flash Player would no longer be supported after December 2020.


	Question 2: What does this mean for games on the website?

Answer 2:
Unfortunately all of our web games require the Flash Player to be able to play them, since they’ve been built specifically to use Flash and all of its features and strengths. After December 2020, once the web browser manufacturers remove support for Flash Player, our games won’t be playable on the website anymore.

However, we will keep the Flash versions of our games accessible on our website for legacy browsers and any possible future solutions that may develop.


	Question 3: Does this affect the mobile apps?


	Answer 3: No, this won’t affect any of our Papa’s Gamerias on phones and tablets! In fact, we’ve been working hard to convert all of the existing Papa’s games into apps, so they would still exist in some form after Flash was discontinued.


	Question 4: What does this mean for future games?


	Answer 4: After our final web game “Papa’s Scooperia” in mid-2018, we’ve spent the past two years working entirely on mobile apps for phones and tablets, so we’ll plan to keep focusing on mobile apps for our games. This includes our next brand-new game “Papa’s Mocharia To Go”, which will be coming to phones and tablets!

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Quinn’s Q&A: Flipline, Flash, and Fashion

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By Flipline_Tony, August 20, 2018 10:57 am


	Question 1: Word on the street is that Flash Player will be fully removed from most browsers by 2020. What does that mean for all the Flash-based browser games on Flipline’s website?


	Answer 1: You are right, Flash Player will indeed be gone by 2020, and some browsers will be removing it even earlier next summer. Once that happens, browser-based games that are published in Flash (including all of our web games) will no longer be available. After that point, we will probably be making some changes to our website to focus more on our apps and blog.


	Question 2: WHAT?? Does that mean you won’t be making any more Flash games?

Answer 2:
Unfortunately, yes, Papa’s Scooperia will be our last Flash game published on our website. We started using Flash to make web games all the way back in 2003, when we were still in college. We are proud to be one of the last few Flash developers out there actively making free games for the web. Who knows, Papa’s Scooperia may be historically the last of the big Flash games to be released for browsers.

But don’t worry, we definitely plan on making more new games in the future, just not for the web browser. We are also in a constant race to port all your favorite Gamerias into Apps for phones and tablets.


	Question 3: What is going on with Papa’s Next Chef 2018 and Kingsley’s Customerpalooza 2018?


	Answer 3: Good question! After some long deliberation, we decided to put a hold on future Papa’s Next Chef tournaments. We will miss it dearly this year as I’m sure many of you will too. Unfortunately, since the time between new Gameria launches are increasing beyond a year, having a yearly contest to decide the next chef just wont work right now. However, on the plus side, we have already been working on Kingsley’s Customerpalooza 2018 and it should be coming out in a month or so!


	Question 4: What’s the deal with Whippa and Mousse? Why do they dress so similar?


	Answer 4: Whippa and Mousse are two new customers featured in Papa’s Scooperia. They have similar taste in clothing because they are siblings and often work together as a team. You can expect more details on this duo when we release each of their Flipdeck Cards!

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Quinn’s Q&A: Where is the new Gameria???

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By Flipline_Tony, December 26, 2017 10:49 am


	Question 1: When will you announce the next Gameria?


	Answer 1: We’re working hard on the next Gameria, but as you know it’s a long process to make a brand-new game! It generally takes at least 4 to 6 months of work to create a new game, and for a long time there just isn’t enough finished to start showing off anything, so we need to wait until things are coming together before we start revealing sneak peeks. Things are progressing nicely so far, so expect us to make an announcement some time in mid-January about the new game.


	Question 2: Will there be two separate Flipdecks for Moe/The Dynamoe?


	Answer 2: Yes. They will be getting two separate Flipdecks just like Joy and Ninjoy did. Moe and The Dynamoe have very different personalities so having multiple Flipdecks will be absolutely necessary.


	Question 3: What else is new over at Flipline Studios?


	Answer 3: It has been very busy over here working on games and apps. We’ve been fulfilling a bunch of orders for Grumpy Onions and Flipdecks. On top of that, Tony just had his fourth child, a boy named Cosmo.

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