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What about Adobe Animate? Granted, I haven’t actually tried, but my understanding is that it is like Flash but targeting the modern web.

by jchw 6y ago

tombert 6y ago
I haven't tried it, though if I recall they've greatly started de-emphasizing the coding aspect of it. Even still, I don't believe I can export directly to anything supported nowadays, right? Does the HTML5 exporter work?
- jchw 6y ago
  It seems to still support ActionScript 3, though again, not personally experienced. Still, this would suggest you can export an existing Flash project to HTML5: https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/how-to/create-publish-html5-canvas-document.html https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/how-to/create-publish-html5-... edit: Looking more closely, I do now see that you have to manually convert the AS3 when exporting to HTML5. That’s a bummer.
  - tombert 6y ago
    Yeah, that's what I thought. I remember hearing that you couldn't magically export your AS3 into HTML5 like you can with something like GameMaker. Somewhat ironically, due to something like Ruffle, exporting to an SWF like before might actually be a viable option again, since you'd get all the nice sandboxing of modern browsers while having pretty-ok flash compatibility.
- jaywalk 6y ago
  Adobe Animate is actively developed and supported, so I'm sure it still exports to HTML5.
solarkraft 6y ago
I tried it out when it was called Edge and found it really easy to make interactive stuff using it! Since I've never made anything using Flash I don't know and would be quite interested in what it's lacking in comparison.
protomyth 6y ago
What about Adobe Animate? "Get Animate as part of Adobe Creative Cloud for just US$20.99/mo." from https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html It would be a hard thing to ask various professions that developed content using HyperCard to fork over the money.
- tombert 6y ago
  That's why I haven't actually tried Animate yet. I eventually bought a legitimate copy of Flash 8, and paid for the upgrade licenses all the way up to CS6, but when they changed the pricing model to be subscription based I pretty much said "screw this" and jumped ship.
- jchw 6y ago
  This is a subthread about Flash and not HyperCard, though, and Flash itself has been on this subscription model prior to the introduction of Animate. For around 3 years if memory serves correct. Though truthfully, it would be most fair to just consider Animate to be a rebranding of Flash, since as far as I know it’s the same codebase.

What about Adobe Animate? Granted, I haven’t actually tried, but my understanding is that it is like Flash but targeting the modern web.

by jchw 6y ago

What about Adobe Animate? Granted, I haven’t actually tried, but my understanding is that it is like Flash but targeting the modern web.

tombert 6y ago

I haven't tried it, though if I recall they've greatly started de-emphasizing the coding aspect of it. Even still, I don't believe I can export directly to anything supported nowadays, right? Does the HTML5 exporter work?

jchw 6y ago
It seems to still support ActionScript 3, though again, not personally experienced. Still, this would suggest you can export an existing Flash project to HTML5: https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/how-to/create-publish-html5-canvas-document.html https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/how-to/create-publish-html5-... edit: Looking more closely, I do now see that you have to manually convert the AS3 when exporting to HTML5. That’s a bummer.
- tombert 6y ago
  Yeah, that's what I thought. I remember hearing that you couldn't magically export your AS3 into HTML5 like you can with something like GameMaker. Somewhat ironically, due to something like Ruffle, exporting to an SWF like before might actually be a viable option again, since you'd get all the nice sandboxing of modern browsers while having pretty-ok flash compatibility.
jaywalk 6y ago
Adobe Animate is actively developed and supported, so I'm sure it still exports to HTML5.

solarkraft 6y ago

I tried it out when it was called Edge and found it really easy to make interactive stuff using it! Since I've never made anything using Flash I don't know and would be quite interested in what it's lacking in comparison.

protomyth 6y ago

What about Adobe Animate? "Get Animate as part of Adobe Creative Cloud for just US$20.99/mo." from https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html It would be a hard thing to ask various professions that developed content using HyperCard to fork over the money.

tombert 6y ago
That's why I haven't actually tried Animate yet. I eventually bought a legitimate copy of Flash 8, and paid for the upgrade licenses all the way up to CS6, but when they changed the pricing model to be subscription based I pretty much said "screw this" and jumped ship.
jchw 6y ago
This is a subthread about Flash and not HyperCard, though, and Flash itself has been on this subscription model prior to the introduction of Animate. For around 3 years if memory serves correct. Though truthfully, it would be most fair to just consider Animate to be a rebranding of Flash, since as far as I know it’s the same codebase.