Flash Games Live Again!

Thanks to the amazing team behind Ruffle...

Great news! Thanks to the amazing work of the team behind Ruffle some of the web games we built at Kempt are playable again! I'll be adding to this post as I discover ones that work, here are a few that I’ve discovered thus-far:

‘Celebrity Pedigree’ for Triviala

Triviala came to us in with a simple brief - they wanted a game that would appeal to 25-45 year old females and encourage them to join their trivia-quiz site. We sat down and thought “what might this audience be interested in?”, the conclusion we came to was “celebrities and pets” so we built a game about breeding celebrity dogs!

I still love this game and I think it has loads of potential for a rebooted mobile game. Its management-sim gameplay could be expanded hugely with infrastructure building and Tamagotchi-style puppy nurturing which would provide sufficient content scope for F2P monetisation and if blockchain gaming was to become more mainstream again then the puppy breeding process could even lend itself to that by using the pups as NFTs!

Check out the celebrity mutts at https://flashmuseum.org/

‘Big Ben Boris’ - Self Published

Hard to believe that this was 20 years ago but in 2005 having built a satirical game about the Labour Party we decided we needed to do something for the Tories in order to provide a bit of balance.

At the time the Conservative Party was having one of their seemingly-annual leadership elections (the one David Cameron won) and we thought it would be amusing to run a spoof campaign in support of Boris Johnson who seemed to be a bit of a joke at the time. We released the game, it made it on to ‘Have I Got News For You?’ and we even sold tee shirts off the back of it! Needless to say we didn’t expect him to become Mayor and then PM afterwards!

Help Boris restore the Ice Cream of Truth at https://flashmuseum.org/

‘Daisy in Wonderland’ for Daisy Dares You / Sony BMG

Created in a couple of weeks to promote the single "Number One Enemy" by Daisy Dares You, this simple puzzle platformer expanded on the Alice in Wonderland-inspired video and drove traffic to in on YouTube - a key marketing goal at the time - the game received many millions of visitors and

Play it again (Sam) at: https://flashmuseum.org or check out the song on YouTube!

Hannah and the Kreludor Caves for Neopets.com

In 2010 Neopets (by this time part of Viacom) commissioned us to create a game for their character Hannah the Squirrel set on the moon of Kreludor. In the game Hannah explores the moon’s caves with her rocket boots and a limited supply of fuel and air - can you find the exit before you run out? The game also features a built-in level editor, hundreds of thousands of levels were created and shared by Neopets players.

You can still play it on neopets.com - check it out now!

Well there you go, you can still play flash games. I’ll add to this list as I find more that still work!