Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It

Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by Laforet on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:38PM (#17630393)

No, but OSX certainly is. I doubt it's viable to write games without using any of the proprietary APIs.

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by roblabla on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:46PM (#17630446)

You can write games just fine using OpenGL (and SDL for windowing/inputs/audio/etc).

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by yoz-y on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:06PM (#17630573)

For now, but in the next version there will probably be no OpenGL support.

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by saagarjha on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:21PM (#17630653)

Doubt it. There are still dozens of frameworks that still link to OpenGL, and Apple’d need to drop or update them all in a year. Most likely it will remain on the system for at least a couple years.

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by roblabla on Saturday July 28, 2018 @03:21AM (#17632053)

You'll still be able to use MoltenVK to get Vulkan support, and SDL will still work for windowing and everything else.

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by jimmaswell on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:42PM (#17630760)

I was just referring to the "lesser degree" of being proprietary

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