Arguably, the golden age of browser gaming occurred in the 00s mostly revolving around Adobe Flash. This was an era with high creativity and a low barrier of entry, and also decentralized from gate…
Porting two existing titles is hardly what I would consider a new golden age.
Browser games peaked in the 00s-10s as the most accessible place to publish a simple indie project. It was simple and easy for beginner developers to just make something and put it out there, and for those that took off there was a decent pipeline to monetize a hit by licensing it to sites that would share a cut of ad revenue.
But now, mobile and Steam have replaced that as the go-to target for developers. They’ve gotten to a point where they’re just as accessible to develop for, and if you want to make a living off your work you’ll have a much better shot that way.
Plenty of great tools still exist for HTML5 development, if developers wanted to they could, and some do. Itch.io has a good amount of new browser games, they exist.
But there’s never going to be anything as big as Newgrounds or Kongregate. Those days are gone for good.
Porting two existing titles is hardly what I would consider a new golden age.
Browser games peaked in the 00s-10s as the most accessible place to publish a simple indie project. It was simple and easy for beginner developers to just make something and put it out there, and for those that took off there was a decent pipeline to monetize a hit by licensing it to sites that would share a cut of ad revenue.
But now, mobile and Steam have replaced that as the go-to target for developers. They’ve gotten to a point where they’re just as accessible to develop for, and if you want to make a living off your work you’ll have a much better shot that way.
Plenty of great tools still exist for HTML5 development, if developers wanted to they could, and some do. Itch.io has a good amount of new browser games, they exist.
But there’s never going to be anything as big as Newgrounds or Kongregate. Those days are gone for good.
https://poki.com/
https://developers.poki.com/
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https://crazygames.com/
https://developer.crazygames.com/
Most of crazy games is ad-riddled ports of ad-riddled mobile games with no depth. It’s hard to find good games there.
Will never be anywhere close to what Newgrounds and Kongregate were at their peak.