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|title = BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint
|logo = flashpointlogoFp_logo.pngjpg
|logowidth = 155
|developer = BlueMaxima<br/>Flashpoint Team
}}
'''BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint''' is an ongoing [[Preservation projects|preservation effort]] for games designed in commercial web frameworks. Named after [[Flash]] (which Adobe says it will discontinue was discontinued in 2020), the maintainers have preserved over 5978,000 games and animations since its inception. The full list of games is available via the [http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List "Game Master List"] on their wiki. Flashpoint covers games, animations and tools developed in Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave, Unity Web Player, Java Applets, Microsoft Silverlight, ActiveX, 3DVIA Player, 3D Groove GX, PopCap Plugin, HTML5, Superscape Viscape, Vitalize!, Authorware, GoBit Games Plugin, ShiVa3D, Hypercosm, Pulse, Burster, TCL and VRML, with support for all web technologies to add in [https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Technologies_to_Add this list] and (natively) Scratch possibly coming in the future.
Flashpoint (and every game in it) was originally released as one gigantic download until a system was developed to download these games on-the-fly. The full download (which, upon completion, requires no further internet connection to use) has since been retroactively titled "Flashpoint Ultimate", and the "lite" version was given the name "Flashpoint Infinity". When the limitations of Launchbox started to show, a discrete launcher was developed.
Flashpoint is available in several different versions:
* <i>Flashpoint Ultimate</i> - The full package, ready for use offline. ~413 478 GiB download, ~480 532 GiB extracted. You'll want to use a download manager and the latest version of 7-Zip.* <i>Flashpoint Infinity</i> - 1.8 2 GiB extracted. Games download as you choose to play them. Certain games don't work.
* <i>Flashpoint Core</i> - A lightweight copy of Flashpoint with one game per platform designed for curation (preserving games).
