Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by ehsankia on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:33PM (#21244048)

Again, the issue isn't the lack of tools. It's the lack of interest. Making games is easier than ever with Unity, yet people don't spend all day playing random small Unity games. We have limited time, and as the types of entertainment increase, we have less and less to spend on small silly things like Flash games.

Back then, a Flash game was the epitome of web entertainment. Now, we have thousands of amazing Youtube videos, Netflix originals, memes, and so on. If you were to give people the same flash games now, they'd find them ridiculously lame.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by buboard on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:53PM (#21244151)

Unity is not a particularly lightweight thing, and flash wasn't just for games. Its main use was animations / banners and video .

> If you were to give people the same flash games now, they'd find them ridiculously lame.

Some of the most popular social games are like farmville, or some poker games. those are really equivalent of flash

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by redisman on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:32PM (#21244589)

Farmville and Candy Crush were literally flash games. Also many genres like physics games were born from flash.

On Unity I agree. It's never going to have 50kb games that download and start instantly. It's also not particularly easy or good for working with 2D games. I've used both professionally.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by buboard on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:24AM (#21245677)

> were literally flash games

thats exactly why i mention them . i meant to say their current html versions are equivalent of their previous flash

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by zanny on Sunday October 13, 2019 @11:27PM (#21245040)

Unity also does animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8NeB10INDo

But it gets really pedantic arguing the semantics of web flash - fundamentally it was only showing on a web page because you installed the browser plugin or it. Today browsers might have stopped supporting arbitrary library plugins like that but now you can write them in webassembly for the same ends. Its just that nobody has actually gone and done it yet.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by buboard on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:07AM (#21245850)

try to imagine a web page with 3 Unity banners

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by ehsankia on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:51PM (#21252099)

Except no one plays Farmville anymore, and as Candycrush implied, most flash games were replaced by mobile games. My point was that people are finding their entertainment elsewhere (mobile, youtube, reddit), which is the real cause of Flash's demise (and similar content).

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by MarvelousWololo on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:19AM (#21247055)

Unity impose hardware constraints that are difficult to overcome in poorer places too. I have an old Dell at home and I won't even try to install Unity on it because it struggles to Windows 10. It's a perfect fine machine for coding with a simple Linux distro.

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