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jaequery on Dec 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Flash, HTML5 and Open Web Standards

Remember games like Farmville? They are all Flash-based. I don't think any of them have or even have plans to move over to HTML5 yet afaik. Flash made game development really easy with it's combination of AS and the wysiwyg interface for tweening and timeline motions. Currently, I don't think theres a definitive equivalent for HTML5 yet.

cpeterso on Dec 2, 2015 | [–]

Some of the Facebook game developers may be able to use Unity's WebGL game tools as an alternative to Flash.

pjmlp on Dec 2, 2015 | | [–]

Except that in 2015, there are still more places where Flash runs than WebGL.

bobajeff on Dec 1, 2015 | [–]

Those things sound tooling related not runtime related (which Adobe was talking about).

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