Opera is an interesting company. They started as an independently developed browser and have since joined the legions of "it's just Chrome with a cool skin" along with Vivaldi, Brave, Microsoft Edge, and others. So at this point they're basically redistributing Chromium with some ads and referrals coded in. That makes the whole endeavor seem pointless, so that means they've been working hard to distinguish themselves with fun browser features and quick access to little browser games, and even a different distribution (GX, marketed to be "for gamers") that focuses on these things, and adds lots of customizability and pretty features.
Playing these Opera browser games really takes me back to the days of online Flash animations. We should really bring those back. I guess nowadays it would all just be inside an HTML5 canvas element. Is there an easily available program to make HTML5 canvas animations? It seems intuitive that there should still be an independent animation scene, especially on the hobbyist web, but there doesn't really seem to be. All the ingredients are there still.
I remember Albino Blacksheep, a site that would publish the occasional flash animation that it deemed worthy onto its front page, thereby skyrocketing it to online popularity. There was also Newgrounds, of course, the much darker corner of the web, or so it seemed then. Newgrounds is still going strong, interestingly, and they've developed their own technologies to overcome Google's killing of Adobe Flash Player. So independent animation is still around, but it's not what it used to be. The new web, big and centralized, has mostly killed such infectious creativity, or consigned it to the dark corners where weirdos hang out, doing things they can't really talk to anyone about. That's okay, I prefer to surf around those types of sites anyway.
~[MD]