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41-507: MMG may refer to: Maddy Makes Games , video game development studio Maybach Music Group , record label founded by rapper Rick Ross MBC Media Group , a television and radio network in the Philippines Mechanomyogram or mechanomyography , (measuring the) mechanical signal observable from the surface of a muscle when the muscle is contracted Medium machine gun ,

82-580: A "complexity of design and polish in presentation that was virtually unseen in amateur Flash game development" of the time. Many Flash games in the late 1990s and early 2000s received attention through the use of shock comedy or real-world events , like McDonald's Videogame , a satire of McDonald's ' business practices, or Darfur is Dying , about the War in Darfur , Sudan . In 2017, Julie Muncy writing for Wired said, "Flash games lent themselves to

123-604: A British Army unit in the First World War that used motorcycle/sidecar combinations equipped with machine guns Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title MMG . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MMG&oldid=1224300518 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

164-412: A basic client–server model . One of the first known examples of a browser game was Earth 2025 , first released in 1995. It featured only text but allowed players to interact and form alliances with other players of the game. Browser technology quickly began to mature in the mid-1990s with support for browser plug-ins and the introduction of JavaScript . More advanced browser interactions, unbounded by

205-705: A category of firearm Mello Music Group , a hip hop record label in Arizona Mick McGinley , Gaelic footballer whose son Paul is the professional golfer MMG Limited , a Chinese-Australian mining company Mosley Music Group , a record label created by Timbaland The Motor City Machine Guns , a professional wrestling tag team Mobile Marketing Group , a telecommunications company specialising in SMS Messaging for Businesses. Mount Magnet Airport , IATA airport code "MMG" See also [ edit ] Motor Machine Gun Service (MMGS),

246-542: A few years to prepare for this event. With little future in Flash, developers moved away from the browser platform in the mid 2010s. As for Adobe Flash games, various collections of such games can be found. Even though Adobe Flash is "broken" and hard to launch after 2021, one can use alternatives, such as the Flashpoint Archive . Browser games were an important platform for the emergence of indie games . In

287-523: A four-day game jam to create a PICO-8 game about climbing a mountain with difficult jumping steps. When they completed this, they recognized the opportunity to flesh out the game into a full release, forming the basis of Celeste . Full work on the game started around January 2016. The game was released across multiple platforms in January 2018. By the end of 2018, it had sold more than 500,000 copies, and received numerous industry awards. In 2021, after

328-542: A fourth prototype that evolved into their first game under the "Extremely OK" name, Earthblade , announced in April 2021, described as an "explor-action" game in a "seamless pixel art world". The game was formally announced at The Game Awards 2022 with a planned 2024 release date, but was pushed back an unspecified time in March 2024. Thorson is transgender and uses she/her pronouns. By around 2020, she had adopted

369-627: A genre of free, online multiplayer that gained popularity with the success of Agar.io in 2015. The games are usually characterized by simple graphics and gameplay in a free for all multiplayer arena. The term ".io" comes from the . io domain , which was originally assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory but became popular for game developers due to its short and memorable nature. Thousands of .io games exist, and many of them have been subject to controversy for both political use and lack of moderation. Agar.io

410-761: A humorous tweet that operations manager Heidy Motta had seen that wished its readers an "extremely OK afternoon". Thorson stated that TowerFall and Celeste would remain published under Matt Makes Games, and that the team had already started the early exploratory work for their next title, codenamed "EXOK-1". With everyone in EXOK working in the same office, it had made development time faster, allowing them to test through multiple prototype games to come onto their next project within six months. The team went through three prototypes (named EXOK 1 through 3) which Thorson said "ventured way too far from our comfort zone for them to realistically ever get finished", before coming up with

451-463: A level for the Super Mario 64 hack Mario Builder 64 titled Ocean Spire on May 24, 2024. On 5 September 2019, Thorson announced that she was effectively shutting down Matt Makes Games, while re-establishing the same team under the new name Extremely OK Games (abbreviated EXOK). The purpose of the change was twofold. First, the new name recognized that Thorson was not the sole creative force behind

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492-408: A multiplayer battle game, where each player would try to defeat the others by shooting them with a bow-and-arrow while avoiding falling off the tower. Because of the frequent visitors to their apartment, they were able to gain feedback and improve the game to be a party-style title. This would ultimately become TowerFall , Thorson's first major commercial game. Recognizing the potential success of

533-629: A self-taught independent developer who was inspired to make it after playing Agar.io. The game quickly rose to be the top game on many platforms. Starting in around 2016, soon after the popularity spikes of Agar.io and Slither.io , more games in the .io games genre began to be released. Many of these games were simple clones of popular games, usually released in a top down-format. Some notable games released in this period include Diep.io (another game by Matheus Valadares), ZombsRoyale.io , Krunker.io, Wings.io, Surviv.io , Hole.io , and Snake.io . These games all remain popular and are some of

574-474: A visit by Alec Holowka , he and Thorson participated in a local game jam and came up with an idea of a single-player platform game based on an out-of-shape archer trying to ascend a tower, collecting treasure and money to help with each attempt to climb it. They had considered pitching the idea to Adult Swim Games, but decided to expand the idea on their own, bringing in Johnston to help. The game morphed into

615-447: Is considered the first ever .io game. The game was announced on 4chan on 27 April, 2015 by Matheus Valadares, a then 19-year-old Brazilian developer. In the game, players control one or more circular cells in a map representing a Petri dish . The goal is to gain as much mass as possible by eating cells and player cells smaller than the player's cell while avoiding larger ones which can eat the player's cells. Agar.io went viral, and

656-527: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Maddy Makes Games Madeline Stephanie Thorson (born 18 March 1988; formerly known as Matt Thorson ) is a Canadian video game developer , known as one of the lead creators for the video games TowerFall and Celeste , developed under the studio Maddy Makes Games (previously Matt Makes Games). Since September 2019, Thorson has worked as Director of R&D at Extremely OK Games. Madeline Stephanie Thorson

697-518: The Internet Gaming Zone , offering various card and board browser games. ClassicGames.com was created in 1997 to host a selection of classic, Java-based online multiplayer games such as chess and checkers; its popularity led Yahoo! to purchase the site in 1998 and rebranding it as Yahoo! Games. In 1999, Tom Fulp kickstarted the Flash games scene with the release of the game Pico's School on his site Newgrounds that featured

738-451: The claimed "death knell" for Adobe Flash by way of Steve Jobs ' open letter to Adobe in 2010, stating that Apple would not support Flash on the iPhone platform due to security concerns and other factors. About a year after Jobs' letter, Adobe announced it would start deprecating Flash and transition users to HTML5 and other open standards in its other products. Adobe completely shut down Flash by January 12, 2021 after giving web developers

779-458: The creation of similar games using the .io domain, and eventually the .io game genre. Slither.io was the second .io game to be released, which is a free for all multiplayer game that is in the Snake genre. The basic premise of the game has 50 players compete to eat colored orbs and grow as large as possible, while destroying other player's snakes. The game was created in 2016 by Steven Howse,

820-470: The current ad-driven revenue model of browser games. Google used the same concepts for developing the Android storefront Play Store . Developers either augmented browser games or shifted to the mobile platform to take advantage of the new revenue opportunities; notably, King transitioned one of its browser games into one of the most successful mobile games, Candy Crush Saga . The second factor came from

861-403: The development of TowerFall . Browser game Some browser games are also available as mobile apps , PC games , or on consoles . For users , the advantage of the browser version is not having to install the game; the browser automatically downloads the necessary content from the game's website . However, the browser version may have fewer features or inferior graphics compared to

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902-624: The early 2000s. Flash games were considered to have hit their peak in the mid-2000s but waned by the early 2010s. Their popularity had fallen due to two primary causes. First was the introduction of mobile gaming , primarily with Apple's iPhone release in 2007 and the availability of the App Store . Through the App Store, anyone could release apps for the iPhone, and with the addition of in-app purchases , new revenue models such as free-to-play quickly emerged for mobile games, well surpassing

943-591: The establishment of Extremely OK Games, Matt Makes Games was renamed to Maddy Makes Games. Thorson has developed romhacks for various Mario games. She has released three hacks for Super Mario World including Super Mario World Remix in 2015, Super "Sonic Saves the World" World in 2021, and Sure Shot in 2022. She has also designed levels for Kaizo Mario World collaboration hacks. Her hacks have been featured in various speedrunning events including Romhack Races and Summer Games Done Quick 2023 & 2024. She also released

984-474: The exaggerated and cartoonish, a style that eventually evolved into an affection-at least amongst its best creators-for beautiful grotesquerie. Like much of the younger gaming internet, Flash games defined boundaries simply to cross them; the best titles straddled a weird line between innocence and cruelty, full of gorgeous gore and enthralling body horror". In Pico's School , based on the Columbine shootings ,

1025-514: The game's development team as its composer. TowerFall was ultimately developed as an exclusive for the Ouya console. Following its initial release in 2013, the team reissued the game in 2014 as TowerFall: Ascension for most other gaming platforms with additional features. TowerFall: Ascension was critically praised, and within a month had brought in over US$ 500,000 . In August 2015, Thorson and Noel Berry, another member of Matt Makes Games, had

1066-644: The games and ensured that the whole team was fully recognized and shared in the collective output from the company. Second, the change coincided with a move to a new set of offices in Vancouver to house the entire team, which had been previously spread across the world, including some in São Paulo . EXOK was technically founded in March 2019, but the first six months had been spent working to move these international developers into Canada and dealing with immigration requirements. The "Extremely OK" name itself came from

1107-418: The late 1990s and early 2000s, the video game industry had started to coalesce around triple-A development, games made by large studios with multi-million dollar budgets. Because of the money involved, the industry took few risks in these major titles, and experimental games were generally overlooked. Browser games gave a venue for such titles during the early 2000s, and the broader interest in-browser games by

1148-576: The mid-2000s highlighted several of these titles. Subsequently, a number of early indie games are those based on browser games, such as The Behemoth 's Castle Crashers , inspired by Newgrounds' Alien Hominid and Edmund McMillen 's Super Meat Boy based on his Meat Boy browser game. Other indie developers got their start in browser and Flash games, including Vlambeer , Bennett Foddy , and Maddy Thorson . Post-2010, browser games written in other formats besides Flash remain popular, such as HTML5, WebGL , and WebAssembly . The .io domain , which

1189-481: The name Maddy Thorson. In the Farewell DLC to the game Celeste , the final cutscene shows the character Madeline in her room with a rainbow flag and transgender flag . Thorson later confirmed that Madeline was trans in a blog post which also reflected on her own coming to terms with her gender identity. Thorson was named by Forbes as one of their " 30 Under 30 " for gaming in 2014, recognizing her for

1230-505: The others, which are usually native apps. Browser games also had a huge influence on independent video games . The front end of a browser game is what runs in the user's browser. It is implemented with the standard web technologies of HTML , CSS , JavaScript , and WebAssembly . In addition, WebGL and WebGPU enable more sophisticated graphics. On the back end, numerous server technologies can be used. Most browser games were originally created with Adobe Flash , but as Adobe Flash

1271-1123: The player must take down a goth school shooter. There are a few other controversies involving browser games and real-world events, such as the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting reenactment V-Tech Rampage , and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre targeting the game Kindergarten Killers after the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings . Expansion of broadband connectivity in the early 2000s drew more people to play browser games through these sites, as well as added attention as viral phenomenon . New sites like Kongregate and Armor Games arose for hosting Flash-based games while also offering their own titles, while companies like PopCap Games and King launched their own portals featuring titles they had developed. Social media sites also drove more players to browser games. Facebook , after launching in 2004, added support for browser game functionality that integrated with its social network features, creating social network games , notably with Zynga 's Farmville . The success of browser games did hurt some developers. Humongous Entertainment reported that they lost players to Flash games in

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1312-430: The player to complete; Thorson felt her goal was not to make her games near-impossible but instead to make games that helped direct the player to improve themselves so that the player could beat the challenges she made for them. Early games were published under the name Helix Games, but in April 2008, she rebranded it as Matt Makes Games, considering the name a more important brand for her work. Thorson's goal in college

1353-528: The restrictions of HTML and that used client-side processing were possible. Among other browser extensions, these new plug-ins allowed uses to run applets made in the Java language and interactive animations created in Macromedia Flash . These technologies were initially intended to provide web page developers tools to create fully immersive, interactive websites, though this use fell out of favor as it

1394-483: The title, Johnston suggested that they get a house in Vancouver to bring in others to help, which they acquired around October 2012, calling it the "Indie House" and inviting other collaborators to join them. Thorson incorporated as Matt Makes Games Inc. shortly afterwards in November 2012. Later, Holowka recognized Thorson as TowerFall 's main creator and relinquished his stake as a co-creator. Holowka remained on

1435-524: Was born on 18 March 1988. Thorson went to college at Grande Prairie Regional College in Alberta , Canada, studying computer science, during which one summer she worked at HermitWorks Entertainment , a local video game development studio. When Thorson was around fourteen, her mother helped her acquire a copy of GameMaker , a software tool to help develop video games. Through working in GameMaker, she

1476-404: Was connected to others in online forums who were also interested in making games, including Chevy Ray Johnston. She developed a number of small pay-what-you-want games through GameMaker in high school and through college, including Jumper and several sequels, FLaiL , and An Untitled Story . Several of her games were described as "masocore", masochistic games that were extremely difficult for

1517-491: Was considered elitism and broke expected browsing behavior. Instead, these technologies found use by programmers to create small browser games among other unexpected uses such as general animation tools. Sites began to emerge in the late 1990s to collect these browser games and other works, such as Sun Microsystems ' HotJava . These sites started to become a popular commodity as they drew web visitors. Microsoft acquired one such site, The Village, in 1996, and rebranded it as

1558-505: Was featured on the free online games site Miniclip . The mobile version of Agar.io for iOS was released on 8 July 2015 and Android on 7 July 2015 by Miniclip. The browser version was released in June 2015 by CrazyGames . The YouTuber PewDiePie created a video titled "REDDIT WANTS TO EAT ME! (Agario Part 1) | PewDiePie," which has over 8.5 million views as of July 2024. The creation and quickly-growing popularity of Agar.io led to

1599-430: Was first used in 2015 by Agar.io , has become a popular domain attached to browser games, because of its short length, the ease of acquiring the domain, and the association with programming because "io" can also stand for input/output . Subsequently, these game developers have found ways to monetize their work by creating versions for mobile devices or other platforms which they can sell. .io games or IO games are

1640-752: Was shut down on December 31, 2020, special browser plug-ins are now required. Thousands of these games have been preserved by the Flashpoint project. The emulation plug-in Ruffle aims to continue browser accessibility of Flash games. When the Internet first became widely available and initial web browsers with basic HTML support were released, the earliest browser games were similar to text-based Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) , minimizing interactions to what implemented through simple browser controls but supporting online interactions with other players through

1681-515: Was to get a computer programming degree and join up with a large game development studio, but as she progressed, she realized she could still make video games without having to be attached to a studio. Following her graduation, Thorson moved into a Vancouver apartment with Johnston where they shared game ideas. Most of these were browser games , and they successfully had a few of theirs published by Adult Swim Games on its site. Thorson and Johnston were visited by friends they had made online. During

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