Given the nature of our business, it’s a very common scenario that we will need to find information or screenshots for games. Fortunately, since game development is a very technical business, most every game has its own dedicated web site.

What is unfortunate however is the industry’s never-ending fascination with Flash-based sites. Waiting for a site to load and then not being able to cut and paste text or save screenshots to disk because the whole damn thing is rendered using Flash is not my idea of a good time.

I got a hilarious - and unprovoked - message over MSN today which pretty much sums up the situation I’m trying to describe:

/tries to grab a wallpaper image from lego indiana jones site

“You do not have enough points to buy this item. Go surf around the site and find more treasures.”

Oh ffs

Why so many site makers decide to glam up their sites at the expense of speed and usability, whilst simultaneously crippling people who are trying to use their assets to promote their game is beyond my understanding.