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Weird coincident.. last I week I installed "Flash MX 2004" in linux using wine. Works flawlessly! Gonna make some cool shit for "newgrounds flash forward 2026"
This year's jam just started:
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Indeed, Flash UI is really its strenght, the way to draw and manipulate curves, I don't think I've seen anything like it after that, although illustrating is not my trade. However, it is possible to do cool procedurally generated stuff with the drawing API, or use plain normal bitmap graphics to do things.
Adobe’s pen tool across all titles is second to none. There is so much value in just that one tool done right.
> We are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate. Animate will continue to be available for both current and new customers, and we will ensure you continue to have access to your content. There is no longer a deadline or date by which Animate will no longer be available.
Headline is out of date. They changed their plans. From the link: > We are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate. Animate will continue to be available for both current and new customers, and we will ensure you continue to have access to your content. There is no longer a deadline or date by which Animate will no longer be available.
"We're going to provide support and security patches" means "in a year we'll quietly stop any work on it anyway"
I’ve mentioned this on here before, but I stand by it: developing Flash is the most fun way I have found to program.
Now, part of this is because Flash was one of the first things that I learned to program, so it’s probably a big rose-tinted because i was younger and it was new, but even as a thirty-something I still have had a blast playing with Flash MX Pro (legally acquired, of course).
Flash is so interesting to me, because it is animation first, but the programming was bolted on pretty elegantly. You could animate something using professional tools, highlight it, make it a movie clip, and immediately export it to code and hack against that. Yeah it was hard to maintain for big projects but it was fun how quickly 15 year old tombert could go from a few drawings to a simple game.
I miss it.
I am glad to see that they’re backing off from discontinuing. I would really, really like it if they would let me buy it outright instead of subscribing. I’ve mentioned this on here before, but I stand by it: developing Flash is the most fun way I have found to program. Now, part of this is because Flash was one of the first things that I learned to program, so it’s probably a big rose-tinted because i was younger an…
I learning to program with as2 and as3.
Notice that it's still very much possible to produce SWF files with languages like Haxe http://haxe.org/ , and there are frameworks that mimic the Flash drawing API like OpenFL https://www.openfl.org/ , there is (or was) a lot of interesting stuff like that happening around.
Headline is out of date. They changed their plans. From the link: > We are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate. Animate will continue to be available for both current and new customers, and we will ensure you continue to have access to your content. There is no longer a deadline or date by which Animate will no longer be available.
They only "changed" them because it materially affected them. "We're going to provide support and security patches" means "in a year we'll quietly stop any work on it anyway"
> A material number of customers see Animate as a differentiator from our competitors, so even if we only provide support and security patches, the investment is justified for retention.
I don't really think there's a hidden agenda here. The announcement surfaced new information for them, they probably reframed their own analytics and saw insights that backed maintaining Animate as a result.
Headline is out of date. They changed their plans. From the link: > We are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate. Animate will continue to be available for both current and new customers, and we will ensure you continue to have access to your content. There is no longer a deadline or date by which Animate will no longer be available.
Notice that it's still very much possible to produce SWF files with languages like Haxe http://haxe.org/ , and there are frameworks that mimic the Flash drawing API like OpenFL https://www.openfl.org/ , there is (or was) a lot of interesting stuff like that happening around.
I wish SWF became a common HTML5 transpile format.