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Thanks for sharing. I may be old or disconnected, but it seems like the like of the flash animator community won't be seen again. Where will we find another Ho

Thanks for sharing. I may be old or disconnected, but it seems like the like of the flash animator community won't be seen again. Where will we find another Homestar Runner or Weebl? It was the right tool at just the right time. It was well able to deliver animations and interactive multimedia with the one tool and ecosystem. While the JS/HTML5 tools can manage animations and multimedia, it seems like the environment, libraries and tools are much more spread out... which perhaps discourages animators, while developers are used to working in such a way.

leephillips 6y ago
No matter the disadvantages of a medium or technology, there will be somebody making something amazing with it. Homestar is a work of creative genius. It's good in a way to be rid of Flash, but something is always lost.
crimsonalucard5 6y ago
I was a kid and not a developer yet when I started playing flash games. There was a lot of amazing stuff out there. Nowadays the dev tools for browsers just aren't geared in that direction. React + HTML + JS is geared for a very specific type of UI while flash is more general. Good to hear that it wasn't actually that bad. The fact that it was typed actually makes the developer experience quite good.