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Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by krapp »

weberer wrote: post #30
mattigames wrote: post #20

A fantasy of mine is to develop a fork of Unity but with an editor interface exactly like Flash, that transpiles Actionscript code to Unity's C#, or maybe a subset of typescript would be a better compromise given it's popularity (either by transpiling or by using node/deno bindings to Unity's Api), to truly make unity games as easy to make as flash games used to be, and with the option to export the project to real U…

How about Godot? You can actually fork that since its open-source.

That's true but what mattigames is describing is so far afield of what Godot actually does that one might as well just start from scratch.

Also, I'd be careful making something with a UI that was exactly like an Adobe product, and that essentially matched its function, that UI may be under patent. This is why GIMP can't exactly copy Photoshop's UI.

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by patates »

I remember looking at the source of some fla files and scratching my head trying to understand the actionscript. The cool shit people could do really motivated me to become a programmer. If anyone involved in making this possible is reading this, I love you for your amazing work, thank you!

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by bradhe »

Honestly why hasn't there been a flash-like competitor or alternative that has filled the gap of creatives being able to quickly produce content and distribute it easily on the internet? I think the HTML5 folks envisioned and being all you need for interactive stuff, but that hasn't really come to fruition. For animated content, is it perhaps YouTube that took over?

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by nosioptar »

hofrogs wrote: post #22

Is there an open source tool to make flash games/animations? I only ever hear of adobe stuff

mxlmc in the Apache Flex Compilers will do both. I used it before adobe gave it to apache for flash games/apps. It worked just fine.

It's also possible to do animations that way, but it'd be better to use something geared toward animation. Tupitube (formerly ktoon) supports swf, I think. But, it looks dead.

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/flex/site/branches/flexdoc/...

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by BlitzGeology91 »

firefax wrote: post #4

Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers. I can't find anything documenting that saga -- in fact, it looks like a lot of the early content from before the "auto portal" an early precursor to video portal like Youtube -- called such because for a spell you had to email Tom your work to be featured in the "portal"…

> Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers.

> I can't find anything documenting that saga[…]

You can find Teletubby Fun Land here: https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby>. If you want to read more about the BBC situation, then click on the middle finger that’s on that page.

> (And I hope one day they can resurrect the old school "Assassin" games)

https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/assassin

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by firefax »

BlitzGeology91 wrote: post #35
firefax wrote: post #4

Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers. I can't find anything documenting that saga -- in fact, it looks like a lot of the early content from before the "auto portal" an early precursor to video portal like Youtube -- called such because for a spell you had to email Tom your work to be featured in the "portal"…

> Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers. > I can't find anything documenting that saga[…] You can find Teletubby Fun Land here: https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby >. If you want to read more about the BBC situation, then click on the middle finger that’s on that page. > (And I hope one day they can resurrect th…

>You can find Teletubby Fun Land here: https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby>. If you want to read more about the BBC situation, then click on the middle finger that’s on that page.

Thanks for that, sadly it looks like as I said, Assassin is gone for good :(

>Unfortunately most of my early Assassin games were deleted when the 2012 site redesign launched and a bunch of old files were cleared out. My original games had never been part of the Portal system so they were easy to overlook.

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by firefax »

tetris11 wrote: post #21
waltbosz wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember reading an article about how Newgrounds was contacted by the BBC around the time the Teletubbies game was published and they thought they were in trouble for the Teletubbies game, but actually the email was about interviewing them about the success of their Club a Baby Seal game.

https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby/wired.html There's a press section, but nothing directly from the BBC

This simply states "This file is hosted on Newgrounds.com"

Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

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Post by nosioptar »

hofrogs wrote: post #27
Karliss wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven't done that in a long while but you used to be able to use Haxe as a compiler in combination of tools like swfmill converting and importing resources. Targeting flash was actually one of them primary usecases when haxe was initially released. It's a bit different workflow than what the adobe tooling provides and in no ways a replacement for adobe animation tooling, but for a more programmer oriented workflow es…

Well I don't exactly want flash as a platform, I just want a similar vector animation experience, raster graphics are not that

I think Synfig might work in that case.
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