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Re:Plane Food Simulator 2021 by astrange on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:38PM (#27826625)
There are great Flash emulators available, so nothing is stopping you from making more swf games. You might have to fall back to an older machine if they haven't maintained the creation tools I guess, but it's more likely noone wants to make them anymore.
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Re:Plane Food Simulator 2021 by nine_k on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:49PM (#27826713)
> nothing is stopping you from making more swf games

...as long as you have the original Macromedia animation software up and running, I presume?

I've seen a couple of good Flash players. Is there comparable open (or even closed but maintained) Flash animation software?

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Re:Plane Food Simulator 2021 by astrange on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @06:52PM (#27827219)
Well, keeping an old machine or VM around to run an older version of Flash is much less of a burden than using one to run Flash Player. It's normal to have old equipment if you're a professional, and if not then creation tools don't have as many significant security issues so you don't have to rebuild the VM as much.

It might still be more work than people want to put up with.

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