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Re:Future of Flash by CodeMage on Thursday May 13, 2010 @07:53AM (#1343907)
I was surprised to see that only 70% of web games use flash. Anyone have any idea on what's in the remaining 30%?
Re:Future of Flash by renewableGuy on Thursday May 13, 2010 @08:05AM (#1343937)
On my iPad, 100% of web games are non-playable. Flash wont work on Ipad, and Html5 games are painfully sluggish. (including that Asteroid HTML5 game featured on the front page right now). Anyway, im happy that Flash doesnt work on iPad. Its not very fun to hold a hot iPad, you know!
Re:Future of Flash by watty on Thursday May 13, 2010 @08:11AM (#1343955)
Good one! I bet if you didn't turn it on it wouldn't get hot at all!!!
Re:Future of Flash by renewableGuy on Thursday May 13, 2010 @10:19AM (#1344299)
Cant believe that you are getting downmodded so hard! iPad really sucks at rendering even basic html5 interactive content and the more i play with it , the more i feel like, iPad just isnt capable of doing even the basic 'interactive-rich' content. I was suggesting ,Flash is too advanced for iPad that not allowing it in is technically a good thing for Apple.
Re:Future of Flash by muhfuhkuh on Thursday May 13, 2010 @11:01AM (#1344422)
>iPad just isnt capable of doing even the basic 'interactive-rich' content

... on the web. Apps, of course, are a different matter entirely. But I get ya, mobile Safari needs a refresh.

Re:Future of Flash by sarvenna on Thursday May 13, 2010 @10:12AM (#1344282)
There's still a fair number of Java-based web games out there, and lots of older web games were made in Shockwave instead of Flash. Flash is certainly dominant amongst newer web games, but lots of old games stick around in various portals.
Re:Future of Flash by muhfuhkuh on Thursday May 13, 2010 @10:39AM (#1344355)
Alot that I've seen (especially the more complex or 3-D ones) use Unity. Maybe it's not 30% of the market, but I've seen that little Unity cube load up more often lately.
Re:Future of Flash by ido on Thursday May 13, 2010 @09:47AM (#1344211)
I don't think html5 covers even 0.1%

They're probably counting some non-dynamic games like most facebook games & there are still some java applets games out there as well.

Re:Future of Flash by inerte on Thursday May 13, 2010 @10:48AM (#1344384)
Straight html and server side code (mmorpgs, strategy games and zombie infections). Javascript (sudoku, crosswords), and some java applets.
Re:Future of Flash by zmmmmm on Thursday May 13, 2010 @07:07PM (#1345997)
You'd be surprised how much Java there is.
Re:Future of Flash by jim-greer on Thursday May 13, 2010 @12:58PM (#1344814)
I bet it's higher than 70%...