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This so much. I've been messing around with the Phaser framework for fun to try and create an HTML5 game, but its nowhere the same as the days of making games a
by robotnikman 6y ago
This so much. I've been messing around with the Phaser framework for fun to try and create an HTML5 game, but its nowhere the same as the days of making games and animations in Flash, especially in terms of simplicity and user friendliness. I hope something similar comes along at some point.
- freehunter 6y agoI honestly believe that the mid 2000s were a golden age of easy to use programming tools. Wanted to make a professional looking website with little code? Dreamweaver. Wanted to write a desktop application with little code? Visual Basic. Wanted to make a game or animation? Flash. Want to write a web application? PHP, just drop it on a server. Even as you started to get more complex into the late 2000s, Ruby on Rails on Heroku is still worlds easier than pretty much anything that's come after it. Today you have buildpacks and webpack and deployment pipelines and confusingly named cloud services and yet another Javascript framework. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses but everything seemed easier back then. And I'm not sure what we've gotten in return for the complexity.