Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by redisman on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:32PM
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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.
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by buboard on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:24AM
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> were literally flash games
thats exactly why i mention them . i meant to say their current html versions are equivalent of their previous flash
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by zanny on Sunday October 13, 2019 @11:27PM
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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.
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by buboard on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:07AM
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try to imagine a web page with 3 Unity banners
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by ehsankia on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:51PM
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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).
> 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