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Programming a shitty AS2 "catch the falling object" game with the cheesiest story and uploading it to Newgrounds got me into programming. Might never have if no

Programming a shitty AS2 "catch the falling object" game with the cheesiest story and uploading it to Newgrounds got me into programming. Might never have if not for Flash.

catmanjan 6y ago
Same here - AS2 and the flash movieclip editor had the perfect learning curve for me - I wonder what the current equivalent is, if any
- k2xl 6y ago
  same here. i got into AS2 in highschool and built many flash games. some people still play them and our sad it won't be playable on chrome by end of the year
  - daveslash 6y ago
    Same here. Got into AS1 in high school, back before Adobe acquired Macromedia.
  - quercusa 6y ago
    Is there any hope that Boomshine might work on this and that you'd consider uploading it? Please....
    - k2xl 6y ago
      Possible... I guess worth a try
- hobby-coder-guy 6y ago
  Roblox or Minecraft maybe
- throw_m239339 6y ago
  There is none in a single package. The closest is Godot but it's not really for animation purposes. Flash went really far. At some point one could even write 2D shaders and use C++ code with 'Alchemy'. A lot of interesting tech abandoned... I mean Javascript can certainly do all that but it's code first, not "IDE" first.
grishka 6y ago
AS3 and VKontakte apps and games for me. Not really got me into programming, I did some J2ME before, but Flash certainly did end up shaping my life quite a lot. It's honestly a shame there's no technology currently in existence that would allow this kind of creativity, with a barrier to entry as low as Flash had.
- IsopropylMalbec 6y ago
  You are not the first person I have met with that exact same sentiment. It feels like there is a desire for the same hacky frontend yet no one wants to invest.
  - disqard 6y ago
    Please check out https://www.blockstudio.app https://www.blockstudio.app (Disclaimer: I built it) It currently lacks sound, but a lot of young people seem to be having fun using it to create games, animations, stories, puzzles, etc.
- pixelrevision 6y ago
  Unity is pretty damn close
  - grishka 6y ago
    Point is... Are there any Unity memes? Haven't seen any :D
    - francis_t_catte 6y ago
      yes, actually: https://gamejolt.com/games/luigi-floating-on-an-egg-over-the-sea/190713 https://gamejolt.com/games/luigi-floating-on-an-egg-over-the...
      - grishka 6y ago
        Flash: you open the page, it plays. There might be one additional click required depending on your browser settings. This: you open the page but it needs to be downloaded. You download it. You unzip it. You see that it's a Windows executable but you're on a Mac. You open it hoping that wine will run it. It does. You choose your graphics settings. You click OK. It plays. Though I'm aware that Unity is capable of running on the web, I haven't seen that capability used much.
throw_m239339 6y ago
Same here. Flash helped me understand OOP. I would have never become a programmer without Flash the IDE. It is very sad what Adobe did with Flash (and Fireworks, and Dreamweaver...), especially in the wake of WASM where they could have ported most of the platform. I guess there was no financial incentives to do that.

Programming a shitty AS2 "catch the falling object" game with the cheesiest story and uploading it to Newgrounds got me into programming. Might never have if not for Flash.

catmanjan 6y ago

Same here - AS2 and the flash movieclip editor had the perfect learning curve for me - I wonder what the current equivalent is, if any

k2xl 6y ago
same here. i got into AS2 in highschool and built many flash games. some people still play them and our sad it won't be playable on chrome by end of the year
- daveslash 6y ago
  Same here. Got into AS1 in high school, back before Adobe acquired Macromedia.
- quercusa 6y ago
  Is there any hope that Boomshine might work on this and that you'd consider uploading it? Please....
  - k2xl 6y ago
    Possible... I guess worth a try
hobby-coder-guy 6y ago
Roblox or Minecraft maybe
throw_m239339 6y ago
There is none in a single package. The closest is Godot but it's not really for animation purposes. Flash went really far. At some point one could even write 2D shaders and use C++ code with 'Alchemy'. A lot of interesting tech abandoned... I mean Javascript can certainly do all that but it's code first, not "IDE" first.

grishka 6y ago

AS3 and VKontakte apps and games for me. Not really got me into programming, I did some J2ME before, but Flash certainly did end up shaping my life quite a lot. It's honestly a shame there's no technology currently in existence that would allow this kind of creativity, with a barrier to entry as low as Flash had.

IsopropylMalbec 6y ago
You are not the first person I have met with that exact same sentiment. It feels like there is a desire for the same hacky frontend yet no one wants to invest.
- disqard 6y ago
  Please check out https://www.blockstudio.app https://www.blockstudio.app (Disclaimer: I built it) It currently lacks sound, but a lot of young people seem to be having fun using it to create games, animations, stories, puzzles, etc.
pixelrevision 6y ago
Unity is pretty damn close
- grishka 6y ago
  Point is... Are there any Unity memes? Haven't seen any :D
  - francis_t_catte 6y ago
    yes, actually: https://gamejolt.com/games/luigi-floating-on-an-egg-over-the-sea/190713 https://gamejolt.com/games/luigi-floating-on-an-egg-over-the...
    - grishka 6y ago
      Flash: you open the page, it plays. There might be one additional click required depending on your browser settings. This: you open the page but it needs to be downloaded. You download it. You unzip it. You see that it's a Windows executable but you're on a Mac. You open it hoping that wine will run it. It does. You choose your graphics settings. You click OK. It plays. Though I'm aware that Unity is capable of running on the web, I haven't seen that capability used much.

throw_m239339 6y ago

Same here. Flash helped me understand OOP. I would have never become a programmer without Flash the IDE. It is very sad what Adobe did with Flash (and Fireworks, and Dreamweaver...), especially in the wake of WASM where they could have ported most of the platform. I guess there was no financial incentives to do that.