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   Ame (americanchampion@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 18:54:29 JST Ame
   It occurs to me that, in the 2000's, everything aimed at kids had legitimately good official Flash games paired with it. Like, you could tell that the devs saw it as a personal passion project - good animation, hours of well-varied gameplay, and so on. The Teen Titans one (first pic related) made it into a fan-compiled list of the best 500 Flash games ever. The guys assigned to making the Lego Mars Mission game built a full-fledged Red Alert 2 clone (second pic related) that was the talk of the whole school for a few days.
   
   Checked some more recent ones, and it's like I'm looking at baby's first hello world project. Even ones from, like, 2017. Animation from whoever Vietnam outsources to, gameplay that I'd expect either a nine year old boy or an African American CS PhD to be capable of implementing, and sounds that were scraped off freesound.
   
   It's a small thing, wouldn't even have noticed it if I hadn't decided to go through Flashpoint's archive on a lark today, but it goes to show just how many little things were better before the age of the H1B.