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Hmm. You ever just stumble upon your reason for living?

• tombert 2y ago
  Ha, if you were to make a decent Flash clone I would pay a not-insignificant amount of money for it as long as it’s not a subscription thing. I don’t have enough interest in that level of programming to make it myself.
  • praptak 2y ago
    My theory is that it's hard to create a usable tool in general and even harder if the domain is complex. Interactive animations are pretty complex.
    • tombert 2y ago
      Yeah, there’s some truth to that. It also doesn’t help that it’s two pronged: Flash is an animation tool and a software development environment. There are some great animation software packages out there like Toonboom or even something like Moho or Opentoonz, but as far as I am aware they do not have the same kind of direct integration with a programming language like Flash did. On the other end of the end of the spectrum, you have tools like Game Maker which do have programming as a core feature, but you’re expected to do animations elsewhere and import them in. So Flash is a competent tool across two complicated domains.