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The death of Flash.
7 years ago
I remember when everything on the internet was made with Flash. Games, animations, some small websites even. I remember Nitrome, and Armor Games, and AlbinoBlackSheep, and Miniclip, and Newgrounds.
I don't know when exactly you could say the format died, because it didn't happen all at once. But all that old culture is gone now, and I wish there was something that deserved to replace it. Youtube just isn't viable for short animations anymore, and mobile games are all balanced around micro-transactions.
The part I like the least is the widening gap between creators and fans, when we used to be practically the same group.
The world's always changing. Tomorrow, always something new. Flash is just another memory we need to leave behind.
My last three uploads were all things originally made in Flash. The reason is simple: Over the next week or so, I'll be going through all my old files and trying to complete and upload as many Flash projects as I can, converting most of them into non-Flash formats when possible. Either still images or .gif animations.
There's too much on my plate right now to waste any more than the bare minimum time on these, so I'm doing the minimum necessary work to release them in some form that I can call finished, just so they don't sit on my hard drive unpublished forever.
One of these is a game.
I can't convert a Flash game into any other form that you could still experience in the same way, so I'll try to cut it short and finish it soon as possible. When it's finished, it'll be the first Flash game that I've uploaded in nearly a decade.
It will be the final .swf file that I upload anywhere.
I don't know when exactly you could say the format died, because it didn't happen all at once. But all that old culture is gone now, and I wish there was something that deserved to replace it. Youtube just isn't viable for short animations anymore, and mobile games are all balanced around micro-transactions.
The part I like the least is the widening gap between creators and fans, when we used to be practically the same group.
The world's always changing. Tomorrow, always something new. Flash is just another memory we need to leave behind.
My last three uploads were all things originally made in Flash. The reason is simple: Over the next week or so, I'll be going through all my old files and trying to complete and upload as many Flash projects as I can, converting most of them into non-Flash formats when possible. Either still images or .gif animations.
There's too much on my plate right now to waste any more than the bare minimum time on these, so I'm doing the minimum necessary work to release them in some form that I can call finished, just so they don't sit on my hard drive unpublished forever.
One of these is a game.
I can't convert a Flash game into any other form that you could still experience in the same way, so I'll try to cut it short and finish it soon as possible. When it's finished, it'll be the first Flash game that I've uploaded in nearly a decade.
It will be the final .swf file that I upload anywhere.
...Flash in the pan.
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Some programmers I know... can be pricks.
Really, it's kind of sad that such an accessible, popular platform for games and animation is now dying.
I would be semi-okay with the death of Flash as long as there was something equal to replace it. But the Flash era of the internet and the community surrounding it was really a product of its time, and we probably won't see anything like it for a long while.
I'd be fine making HTML5 games, if FA started supporting them.
It's nowhere close to accessible as Flash was. I mean, you can program in these languages for free, but it's a heck of a lot harder, from what I can tell. I've never used ActionScript, but I hear it's a lot easier than Swift and Java. :/
Also, there are all kinds of people that'll try to bring you down for what you try to learn. Like, "Oh, everyone learns Java - real programmers use Python for their scripting needs" or "Javascript is truly superior because it's so flexible, and you only can't program in it because you need your type safety and your garbage collection."
When they really don't realize that languages aren't "Superior" to one another - they all have a purpose, most of them just have advantages and disadvantages to other languages is all.