Flash version is much better. Less CPU for me as well. I do native mobile/flash/html5 versions for games I make; the html5 versions rarely get any play time. People download native on iOS/Android and on Mac/Win they play the flash version.
Flash vs HTML - Waste Invaders
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Re: Flash vs HTML - Waste Invaders
#72When comparing Flash and HTML5, Flash wins 4 out of the 5 criteria but the balance scales end up with them both equal. Also, Flash gets a 0% for mobile browsers as new phones don't get Flash Player. I'm willing to be that a higher number of smart phones in use today have Flash Player installed (all but iOS and recent Android) than have a browser that supports all the HTML5 required for the game.
Flash fails to reach a large portion of the market, so Flash fails. HTML5 is the future. Also, this game (and many other flash experiences) crash my Flash plugin and take up more CPU usage than HTML5 video or canvas experiences.
What are you running? For me Flash does less CPU. I agree with HTML5 being the future, but the future is not now.
Re: Flash vs HTML - Waste Invaders
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> And why bother? If you have the choice, why not go with HTML5 which already has some good and very fast free implementations available? Well, I think this demo kind of proves why not: it doesn't work the same way on everyones browser. We've been talking for years now about html5 games obsoleting flash, but it doesn't seem to be coming together does it? My opinion on why not? We've got some serious problems with the…
As someone who built and maintained a large-scale Flex app for 5 years, none of Flash's advantages are worth the countless unpredictable difficulties you WILL encounter. It's not a stable platform. Move on. Maybe the story is entirely different for games, but I can't see how it could be that different.
Flash and Flex are EXTREMLY stable and easy to maintain for my projects. Maybe it is not Flash/Flexs Fault but yours ?
Re: Flash vs HTML - Waste Invaders
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As someone who built and maintained a large-scale Flex app for 5 years, none of Flash's advantages are worth the countless unpredictable difficulties you WILL encounter. It's not a stable platform. Move on. Maybe the story is entirely different for games, but I can't see how it could be that different.
Flash and Flex are EXTREMLY stable and easy to maintain for my projects. Maybe it is not Flash/Flexs Fault but yours ?
We were trying to build on a scale Flash just couldn't handle well, so in that sense, yes, we made a poor decision in going with the platform. But it looked good from the start, it was only after scaling that we ran into issues.