How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry

Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by rtpg on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:03PM (#43226774)

People have pointed out to me that the Flash platform basically still exists with Adobe Animate, AS 3 and everything (including web publishing).

So you can theoretically use the same flow as in your memory. I wish the price was not what it was, and I do not pirate software anymore. And Adobe's tricks when it comes to subscriptions are so nasty. This is a huge barrier to me trying to use Animate for anything, even though I'd probably enjoy it so much.

Timeline-based programming is such a good system for one-offs.

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Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by tombert on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:07PM (#43226795)

Wait how do you publish stuff written with AS3 and Adobe Animate in 2025? Ruffle?

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Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by rtpg on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:24PM (#43226911)

You can just compile to HTML5 output! It “just works” for some version of “works”.

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Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by tombert on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:30PM (#43226956)

Interesting, I tried that feature shortly after the first version was released, but it was terrible, even relatively simple animations wouldn't work.

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