Inside Swiff: An Interview with NaviVani on Bringing Flash Games Back to Android

For a generation of people who grew up on the internet, Flash games were as much a part of childhood as any console or PC. They were everywhere: on gaming websites, passed between friends, discovered through Facebook or YouTube videos and often made by people who simply had a strange idea and decided to turn it into a game.But unlike the consoles and games that came before them, much of that era of the internet just wasn't built to last. Adobe ended support for Flash in 2020, taking with it a huge part of the web's gaming history and making many of those games increasingly difficult to experience. For Navia, better known online as NaviVani, that disappearance was personal. Having grown up playing Flash games on whatever websites she could find, she describes the end of Flash as feeling like "losing a part of her childhood".Swiff began, somewhat fittingly, as a way of getting that feeling back. Already exploring Android gaming and emulation, NaviVani wanted a better way to play Flash…