Internet Archive expands Flash support
I was just watching a YouTube video about Home Star Runner yesterday: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbh9-mNmviE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbh9-mNmviE</a><p>I never watched the series myself but I do remember hearing about it.<p>In the video essay he talks about how flash videos like Home Star Runner were a unique medium.  Not quite passive like a video but not quite interactive like a video game.  The videos could be watched passively but also could incorporate interactive elements like minigames, easter eggs, and choose your own adventure stories.<p>He points out that even when Netflix dipped into the choose your own adventure format they couldn't achieve the same flexibility as a flash animation because if for example they wanted to make a story change that would dye a character's hair blue they couldn't possibly film all the permutations scenes required to propagate that visual difference throughout the story.<p>But in flash animation you can.  You can easily let the audience choose a character's hair color and have that effect the animation for the rest of the story.<p>The author of that YouTube video made me wish I could experience those cartoons and it makes me happy that places like the IA are making that possible.