wordleSMS VS ruffle

OK, so to be fair, this Wordle! app is older than Josh Wardle's game. It used to be a completely different game like Wordscapes, and then when Josh Wardle's Wordle took off, hundreds of thousands of people downloaded Wordle! by mistake. Wordle!'s developer cashed in on this and sold his game to AppLovin, which turned the older Wordle! into a Wordle knock-off. The entire mobile app economy is flooded with knock-offs to the point where it's hard to find originals. Heck, Wordle itself is a Lingo knock-off. However, Josh Wardle created Wordle and named it after himself, then sold it to the New York Times. NYT Wordle is the one and only official Wordle, and for now, it doesn't have any ads or any mobile apps.

Original game: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

yup. it's /u/powerlanguage who organized most of /r/thebutton. The original wordle URL was also https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

GOOGLE, you've known me for years, when I type in P and O and then Enter you know damn well i'm not trying to go to https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

I think I found the source of the issue! I looked at this post and checked on how I opened wordle every day on my phone. I realized, that I always type wordle in the search bar and click on the first suggestion Safari gives me. I think the issue is, that Safari does not suggest the plain wordle URL (https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html) but the one, that was generated when NY Times transferred the game from the original domain (https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) to theirs. It looks something like this and was generated to be able to transfer the stats from the old page to the new NY Times page:

Source: All possible 'solution' words are stored directly in the Wordle website's JavaScript.

omg where have you been

The memories…

I often wondered what would happen to those wonderful Orisinal mini games after Flash's death, without actually checking out the site. Would Ferry Halim find the time to port them to "HTML5"? Would they just… disappear forever?

It turns out that they know run in Ruffle[1], a Rust/WASM based Flash Player emulator I've never heard of (or forgotten about). The handful of them that I have tested work flawlessly.

[1] https://ruffle.rs/

shrug It finds its uses. It's just not that overstated.

sandspiel is quite popular and is built using WASM: https://sandspiel.club/

Google Earth - https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/webassembly-brings-google-...

Ruffle (the "make Flash run safely" tool) - https://ruffle.rs/

Ableton's Learning Synths - https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

etc etc. It's just hard to tell when something is using WASM when it "just works" and is indistinguishable from optimized JavaScript

I was amazed that the site still runs, apparently still using the same engine.

But it seems that it was a flash site (of course), and archive.org seems to replace Flash Player with "Ruffle" [1]. Either that, or someone of Tobin's team replaced Flash with Ruffle >= 2019.

[1] https://ruffle.rs/

Out of curiosity a couple months ago I wondered if I could play my old Proximity flash game on Newgrounds from the browser within the Quest 3 VR headset, and it worked great!

That led me to do a little searching, and I discovered that originally the game didn't work in Ruffle, as I apparently did something with the play game button that wasn't normal. But someone put a fix in it back in 2020[1] in order to get my game working again. That was pretty neat. Felt kind of nice that people still cared enough about my old game to make sure it still works in an emulator.

Still working on a more in-depth sequel (using Monogame), and I'm way overdue to make a new web version of the original. Might knock that out once I get closer to getting the sequel out there.

[1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/1024

i believe it's using Ruffle[0] and that's already happened[1]

[0] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

This is all using a really cool Flash emulator called https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle