I have been looking everywhere on the internet for a playable version of the original Buddypoke Facebook and Orkut app before the mobile phone app replaced it. The original flash player version is likely to be considered lost media but there is many videos and screenshots of it on Google.
The boardwalk? Enjoy your time among the commoners, player. You see, I only swim in bottled water.
Update: I just contacted Dave if he can provide the latest SWF as the one I currently have is one of the earliest versions and it doesn't have dinosaurs and allat like the last one was made..
BTW, I didn't say this before, but in October 2022 Dave replied to one of my emails about a question of what the new BuddyPoke should be like (I emailed him about to bring the old BP back.)
Last Edit: Aug 27, 2023 10:57:47 GMT by lovelyyt: I didnt refer to Dave as Dave in the second sentence.
The boardwalk? Enjoy your time among the commoners, player. You see, I only swim in bottled water.
HUGE UPDATE: Dave just replyed again. Sadly, the latest SWF file could not be provided as it was tricky to provide with it being split into 3 files. He mentioned that the early versions (AKA the ones that work and are found) were easy to run, but the more later versions with the dinosaurs are the ones that are hard to run. Dave is apparently trying to bring BP back with WebGPU. I'll maybe ask if he can provide the last version which was a single SWF. I wont share the full reply as that could be against his privacy.
The boardwalk? Enjoy your time among the commoners, player. You see, I only swim in bottled water.
I'm considering this partially lost now. 3 working SWFs are found, and the only thing is to get newer ones to work even if there doesn't seem to be a way around.
The boardwalk? Enjoy your time among the commoners, player. You see, I only swim in bottled water.
On a side note, I still wonder if BuddyPoke really did take inspiration from MySims. Many people claim the latter are VERY similar in artstyles (like if you compare the character's body shapes, they look almost the EXACT same.) and those claims are what made me start playing MySims itself. Once I saw MySims in a CeX store and I was like "Hey, that looks like BuddyPoke!" before finding people's claims. Might ask Dave about it in the future.
I'm considering this partially lost now. 3 working SWFs are found, and the only thing is to get newer ones to work even if there doesn't seem to be a way around.
I'm considering this partially lost now. 3 working SWFs are found, and the only thing is to get newer ones to work even if there doesn't seem to be a way around.
Can you help me find sublymonal next?
Don't think I can at the moment as I rather would work on my own searches ATM. Thank you for asking however.
The boardwalk? Enjoy your time among the commoners, player. You see, I only swim in bottled water.