Google is reportedly bringing instantly playable online games to YouTube (www.eurogamer.net)

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[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Sounds like some Google exec recently discovered Adobe Flash and wants to relive the heyday of Newgrounds. I guess if it gets us a new Hedgehog Launch or Crush the Castle it won't be all bad. Just have to wonder if the games will survive the inevitable closing down of the project in a couple years?

[-] silent_clash@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I highly doubt it will be in the format of a flash portal. It sounds closer to the Netflix model of producing and licensing games for subscribers.

[-] wagesof@links.wageoffsite.com 8 points 2 years ago

Got all that stadia trash just laying around, Let's roll it into youtube. Nobody will notice!

[-] original_reader@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Who wants this? 🤔🤷‍♂️

[-] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 7 points 2 years ago

Ever heard of "New Grounds?" They're basically about to recreate that place. Now all they need is a forum and it'll be complete!

[-] impulse@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Sadly, we have to accept that we are old and a lot of people grew up after the glory days of New Grounds.

[-] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

Indeed. New Grounds was before my time, but I've been there. The point was more to illustrate that there is definitely potential in this thing.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

It actually kind of makes sense if it's using stadia technology. You hit up your favorite streamer, and then if you want to play the same game they can spin up a window for you regardless of your PC specs.

[-] Profilename1@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Seems half-baked. Are they trying to resurrect the flash game? It could work as a standalone thing, but I don't see why it needs to be part of YouTube other than the fact they're going to shove it in our faces just like they did their TikTok clone.

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Youtube had this feature a decade ago, if you pressed the down key while the video was loading you could play Snake.

But seriously, is this like Stadia where you can stream the games or similar to Flash (or itch.io as a more modern example), where the games will run inside the client browser?

[-] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Is…. Is this not just stadia but on YouTube?

[-] Snickeboa@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Imagine that. Just going on YouTube, searching for a game, pick up your controller and just play. Like no installation and no loading times. That sounds like the future! But yeah, I guess there are some issues that needs to be ironed out before we’re there.

[-] JonDorfman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Isn’t that what Stadia was supposed to be? We have the tech, people are just so skeptical of Google (with good reason) that the project died. As for what they are talking about here, it seems they are trying to replace the old flash game sites. It could work, but I think they might be butting up against the mobile market more than they realize with this.

[-] silent_clash@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Stadia was basically a game console as a service, assuming you had good enough internet. You had to pay for the subscription for access, then pay for each game individually. The one benefit of that was very little initial barrier to entry, as you just needed chromecast and a stadia controller.

Youtube playables appears to be just lightweight html5 web app games that run locally in your browser, similar to what flash player was like.

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