YouTube's Latest Experiment is Playing Games

YouTube is trying out games as its next experimental offering. The company is adding a new "Playables" section on the site that will include games that can be played on both the desktop website and mobile devices. From a report: Playables will only appear for "a limited number of users to start," and there was no list of game titles published at this time. 9to5Google reports that one of the games to grace the new YouTube Playables experiment includes Stack Bounce, which involves a 3D ball bouncing on top of rings you must smash through with well-timed clicks. If you've heard of the game before, it's because Google already offers it on its minigames service, GameSnacks.

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[WDot]

My first reaction was pretty knee-jerk. If there’s one thing we don’t need more of, it’s video games! It’s a brutally overcrowded market. That said, wouldn’t it be cool to bring back the culture of user-created flash games that sites like Newgrounds and (the now defunct) Bonus.com had? There used to be a bunch of that kind of site, and now it’s been many years since I remember seeing people share a link to a game that is fun or funny for about 5-10 minutes before they move on with their lives.

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[war4peace]

Blame rests on the death of Flash.

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[WDot]

Oh sure, but given how sophisticated web technology is getting for graphical applications (e.g. wasm and WebGL) it seems like “flash like” games could make a comeback.

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[cayenne8]

Bring back Doom 2 or Descent and I'll give YT Games a look.

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[DarkRookie2]

https://store.steampowered.com... [steampowered.com]

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[war4peace]

That golden period with thousands of small, simple Flash games popping daily on various websites is dead and gone.
Steam and other similar stores (including mobile app stores) is where the money to be made arguably is.

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[DarkRookie2]

But that wasn't the point of Newgrounds. It was a place to show off your work. I don't anyone released a game on Newgrounds expecting a big pay day.

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[war4peace]

Yes, but nowadays you can simply release that on Steam for $0.99 :)

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[DarkRookie2]

And I wouldn't touch it.

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[war4peace]

Yeah, YOU wouldn't.
But 10 gullible users each paying $0.99 is better than 1000 free users paying nothing.

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[DarkRookie2]

And that is why Steam/Play/Store is fill with so much low effort trash. To catch the idiots that will pay $1 for a worthless shiny.

It's all games

[TurboStar]

Both creators and viewers are asking for better recommendations on long form video, better search, and less shorts. Nobody is asking for games on YT. Nobody is asking for more ads either, but I got an announcement today about them removing some ad controls from the creator dashboard so they can show more ads.

Patreon is going to start kicking their ass for real content. They just need to finish work on their video service, especially subtitles/cc and discovery. YouTube will be left with the shit channels reviewing consumer landfill.

I'm considering putting my content only on Patreon. YouTube will get a 60 second trailer/ad for new Patreon videos. So my ad will have ads. I imagine one day we'll have ads all the way down.

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[DarkRookie2]

Nobody is asking for games on YT.

The idiotic C-Levels and Share Holders are.

Newpipe

[mustafap]

I'll stick with newpipe thanks

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[DarkRookie2]

No to the shitty app.
No to the add on that doesn't work
and No to the add on for people that failed Stat in High School

Stock Bounce?

[dddux]

"Stack Bounce, which involves a 3D ball bouncing on top of rings you must smash through with well-timed clicks. If you've heard of the game before."

I've heard of it. They use it as part of the training for monkeys and apes in the lab.

Well its been 15 years

[future assassin]

since browser game sites were popular, with the 15 second attention span I guess its safe to start one again.