There’s a lot of material to discuss from the Mochi Flash Gaming Summit (particularly for developers) and I intend to get through as much of it as I can in the next week or two. In the interim, though, I’d like to try and set the context for those future discussions.

1. Mochi’s Re-cap and Round Up
2. Nitpicking the Flash Game Summit – from Kongregate’s Greg who reiterates a lot of his points from our recent Q&A
3. Some great and less great commentary from Gamezebo

I don’t think I can do the material justice in the short time I have available, but essentially there were a lot of great things about the conference (Mochi’s Ada did such a kick ass job on pulling off the event), but also several things that left me scratching my head.

1. A lot of the misinformation out there is being perpetuated by either people who really have no idea what is going on with Flash games, or by people who are deliberately spreading that misinformation for their own purposes. Even more scary is that some of these people wield a lot of power at some fairly substantial organizations.
2. Flash developers are increasingly treating this as a business and not a hobby and that has some interesting ramifications.
3. Most of the larger portals seem obsessed with establishing repeatable sources of revenue from Flash games that aren’t based on advertising, and that no one really knows quite how to do it (although everyone seems to be betting on synchronous multiplayer microtransaction games).
4. It’s a good time to be a competent Flash game developer.

We’ll chat about it in greater detail later.