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Sounds reasonable. Flash as a player seems on the way out in a lot of ways. Flash as a content creation tool could have a much longer lifespan if Adobe plays it

Sounds reasonable. Flash as a player seems on the way out in a lot of ways. Flash as a content creation tool could have a much longer lifespan if Adobe plays it right. The tools are quite powerful and the number of artists that can use it and use it well is large. As mentioned quite a few games use flash to create assets but have their own custom export and playback. Castle Crashers and Shank spring to mind but there are quite a few others. Unreal Engine 3 announced support for exporting to flash. Given that they also support Scaleform it would be possible to write a mini-game in flash running inside UE3 running in a flash player. And if you throw Unity into the mix...

DanielRibeiro 15y ago
Adobe has been adapting its tools to HTML5/CSS3[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Which is great for HTML5, designers/developers who are used to such tools and Adobe. In the end, if Adobe pulls this off, it can focus on what it does best: productivity tools. No longer needing to maintain Actionscript, language tools, or an entire platform in multiple OS. [1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css3-regions.html http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css3-regions.html [2] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/ http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/ [3] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/exclusive-adobe-ceases-development-on-mobile-browser-flash-refocuses-efforts-on-html5-updated/19226 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/exclusive-adobe-ceases-deve... [4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214454 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214454 [5] http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/adobe-html5-animation-ide-edge http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/adobe-html5-animation-ide-...