Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Frank Lantz talks about how he and his former Gamelab team at made the classic browser games Junkbot, Spybot: The Nightfall Incident, and more!

Frank Lantz' substack: franklantz.substack.com

00:00 - Introduction, Working at Gamelab
05:40 - Making games for Lego, Lego World Builder
11:12 - Lego Drome Racing Challenge
15:24 - Gamelab's approach to browser games
18:15 - What is success for a browser game?
21:50 - Other early 2000s browser games
23:55 - Lego set that features Junkbot
25:39 - Preserving flash games
28:27 - Making The Nightfall Incident
35:55 - The music for Nightfall Incident
39:00 - The fake companies in Nightfall Incident
40:25 - Immersion, Fans of the games
43:20 - Post-Gamelab games
47:26 - Making games now vs then