@Gimmick @carbonlad columbine? or regret/jeff weise? but yeah it's been a great run, and oh the places it could have continued onwards if only a series of boneheaded decisions hadn't been made all these years. Anyway, this is a mixed blessing: while developing in as3 is a dead end except for desktop/AIR, at least you won't have to worry about someone from the future stumbling on your old crap and wondering why it's so bad, because they won't be able to play it in the first place lol
also there's some software that some dude made for archiving flash games and playing them on the desktop, it's described in his post: https://blog.usejournal.com/adobe-flashs-gaming-legacy-thousands-upon-thousands-of-titles-and-my-efforts-to-save-it-58c14811558a
Gimmick
not a fan, not a follower, just saw you on the bbs occasionally, i say you do whatever you want to do, nobody's forcing you to do whatever you don't want to.
also flash disappearing in 2020 doesn't mean you can't make flash stuff, it's that less people will view it IIRC, so it's more about future-proofing your past work than 'getting in as many flash related stuff as you can before 2020'. in other words, its not a room that gets permanently locked in 2020, it's more like a pantry that gets renovated into a closet
carbonlad
yea future proofing flash games is definitely a thing, most of my stuff is still in flash, the best I can do once support stops is export projector files from them. I havent thought of anything else yet. Flash is a great tool, im a little reluctant that it is being phased out, and also knowing that the one batman shooter was a big fan of using it for science demonstrations (I think?) before going mad and shooting up an entire theater though lol.