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>Is authorship of new titles even a possibility We still write fresh new AS3 code at $work. All IDEs and tooling are running fine on W10/W11.
by dur-randir 3y ago
>Is authorship of new titles even a possibility
We still write fresh new AS3 code at $work. All IDEs and tooling are running fine on W10/W11.
- azinman2 3y agoWhy? For what? Flash/flex is dead?
- dur-randir 3y agoIt's a profitable game with an active user base, some of which are stuck on old HW, which can't run WebGL. Flash, surprisingly, is still better at graphics than what current browsers provide.
- justinclift 3y agoRealm of the Mad God?
- dur-randir 3y agoNo, it's some Farmville clone.
- JoeyJoJoJr 3y agoCurious, are you writing Adobe Air apps? I assume the only reason anyone would be writing new AS3 code is to maintain an old Adobe Air app. I ask because the I maintain one and I find the tooling and IDE experience brittle and horrible.
- dur-randir 3y agoWe had one Air app, but it got rewritten into Unity (mobile) and is now retired. No, this one is a real Flash app (MMO game), users run it in one of two ways: - flash plugin bundled into electron, for players with old hardware, ~30% user base - Flash transpiled into TypeScript transpiled into ES5 JS, with custom runtime based on WebGL The whole runtime is kinda like Ruffle, but we don't support all Flash capabilities, just what was required to make app running (but it's still a lot of API surface).
- justinclift 3y agoWhat do you use for the Flash authoring?
- dur-randir 3y agoIIRC, some version of Adobe Creative Suite.
- justinclift 3y agoThanks. :)