I'm allowed a moment of navelgazing nostalgia
I looked at bluesky briefly today and immediately saw Michael Klamerus's reminder about Don't Shit Your Pants, a Newgrounds game that was wildly popular for a little while during my senior year in college.
If you've never played it, I recommend giving it a try now.
It was super weird to spend some time today playing a game I hadn't touched for sixteen years. This led, of course, to me spending even more time just sitting around and remembering the webgame world of yesteryear. There was this super-brief period of time where it seemed like stuff like Don't Shit Your Pants or QWOP or Robot Unicorn Attack were as well-known culturally as your average indie film. I spent something like an hour a day on Kongregate. To me, "indie games" was at least partially synonymous with "web games." Addictinggames.com was how I got into indie games in the first place.
I don't think it's necesarrily great for us to all sit around constantly thinking about our various cultural losses or societal ills. However, I do think that I need to spend more time reminding myself that this entire vector of youth creativity got fucking scoured off the face of the earth by flash shutting down/smartphones. Because it's kind of the scene I grew up in. It's weird that I rarely think about it anymore.
I do subscribe to Museum of Screens in my RSS reader... but because I often read my RSS subscriptions on my dumbass phone, I don't often play the PC web browser-oriented games this blog tends to cover. I am a fool!! It's a great project and I should play more of the games it covers.
Anyway, yes, like Michael says, a AAA adaptation of Don't Shit Your Pants would be extremely funny. Can't say I support anyone doing it, but yeah, that would get a chuckle out of me...