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There was a period around back when we automated it - that was the original real exciting period.

When would you say the Newgrounds heyday was? When was it at its peak? In 2000, we launched the automated portal, and ever since then, people have been able to instantly publish games and animation. So many people started sending me their SWF files and I was managing so many pages, so I brought a friend onboard to develop an automated version of that. But I also started showcasing other people’s Flash work, because other people didn’t necessarily have hosting for their stuff, and they thought it would be a good spotlight because we had some popularity on the site from the things I had been making at the time. I started it in 1995, but 1999 is when I added the portal, which was originally a place where I would put my unfinished projects. It originally grew out of being a Flash community, where people were instantly publishing Flash games and animation.

Newgrounds is a community where people can instantly publish and share their original animation games, art, or music. To start, what is Newgrounds? How would you describe it to someone who might not know about the site? Tom Fulp, the site’s 39-year-old founder, took some time to explain how the site has been preparing for the end of Flash for a while, and what comes next. Two decades later, the site is still going strong, though it’s a bit past its heyday, and is actively looking toward a future without Flash. Newgrounds is a hugely beloved early web portal that allowed budding Flash creators - game developers, animators, and artists among them - the ability to host their homespun SWF files for anyone to enjoy.

Few are weeping over Flash’s corpse.Įxcept, maybe, at Newgrounds. As important as it was, the plug-in became known as a buggy, memory-hogging security risk. The web-defining software - once used for all kinds of browser audio and video - has been all but replaced by new standards like HTML5, thanks in part to the fact that it’s unusable on most mobile platforms. When Adobe announced that it was planning an “end of life” for Flash yesterday, it shouldn’t have taken anyone by surprise.