The crazy thing is that flash still has amazing penetration over Unity on the web. Now, I can't seem to find an accurate statistic regarding the plugin penetration of Unity recently, but my guess is that it's still significantly lower than flash's penetration. This is what I see as the major thing flash still has going for it. Flash still has even more penetration than HTML5. If you are a major Facebook game developer, for instance -- you care about this. Each percentage point you lose = millions of players.

Unity claims that 1/3rd of Facebook gamers have the Unity player installed. So 33% of Facebook 'gamers' (What is it defining as a 'gamer' anyway?) have it installed. Compare that to 99% for flash. Facebook is a great demographic, were talking about the most casual game player. The people who you might actually want to play your game perhaps ?

We're all nerds here so we're all focused on the technical aspects of the platforms, but if you look at it from a business perspective Flash still makes a lot of sense if you're talking about web-only.

BTW I'm guessing this was not totally trivial on Unity's part to maintain this flash compilation process. I think they were using FlasCC, and I'm not sure how well Adobe was supporting this. I bet Unity's engineers were pulling their hair out to try to port every Unity feature over to it. With their own plugin gaining momentum they did the right thing to divert the resources to somewhere else.

At 4/25/13 02:43 PM, PSvils wrote: So me and my friend have a gameplay video of NeuroPulse up and running so far!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP3a3NBkfCY

Check it out! :)
< / selfpromo >

Awesome!

At 4/25/13 05:30 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: more death tolls for flash:

a huge amount of people making flash games right now are using flashdevelop or haxe (or other tools), and skipping adobe's tools entirely. Adobe doesn't make money on flash as a platform (they tried to, and it was such a failure that they recently retracted those fees), they make money on flash the authoring tool. Now, they COULD spend time working on the authoring tool to make it better than the free alternatives, but they are adobe, and they will never do that.

The only reason adobe flash has lasted so long is cause they had a monopoly on it, and that isn't the case any more.

You raised some very good points here; I've always thought Adobe just thought HTML5 too large a risk to the Flash platform. I don't think that's the only reason why they're losing interest in Flash though. They still monopolise the Flash animation market. Besides, I very much doubt a beginner would skip Adobe Flash and dive straight into FD because a) most books, tuts, etc., teach Adobe Flash, b) FD is very, very intimidating to someone who can't even tell between a WHILE loop and a DO...WHILE loop, and c) SWCs.

I maded an input text field for Flixel :3
FlxInputText.as
KeyboardManager.as

updated to reject the tab key and make the bar/carrot act like it should (moving with the arrow keys and mouse clicks), and I almost forgot to post the updated FlxText thingy which it uses.

FlxTextUpdated.as

My thoughts on flash and unity were summed up by Bryce. And probably explained better.

Been working on Tactics - so far i've got a loading screen, a couple client/server sockets that sit there, a login screen that so far does nothing, and a server selection screen that also sits there looking pretty. Woo!

Learning more and more that Flixel is pretty bare-minimum, and doesn't really work terribly well for a game like, y'know, an MMO.

Also, github

#shamelessselfpromotion

anywayyyyy... Has an improved random number generation class?

My ludum dare game is coming along nicely

(mouse control only)
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/64f4d7b1c28dbf2c00e216cf bb8fa4fa

the theme was "minimalism" but that's a shitty ass theme so we blew it up with a death ray

working with martin

I have a quick question and I hope this thread is the right place to ask it.

Has any one of you used haxe? Is it really as great as it's said to be?

At 4/27/13 10:36 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: My ludum dare game is coming along nicely

(mouse control only)
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/64f4d7b1c28dbf2c00e216cf bb8fa4fa

the theme was "minimalism" but that's a shitty ass theme so we blew it up with a death ray

working with martin

I like the blue and red "tightness indicators" you could probably remove the percentages so long as the user understands those indications. I don't know what ludum dare is but is this supposed to be a mobile game?

At 4/28/13 02:45 AM, PSvils wrote:

At 4/28/13 01:53 AM, SkyFire2008 wrote: Has any one of you used haxe? Is it really as great as it's said to be?

Yes and yes.

Okay.

Good luck, Glaiel-Gamer!

At 4/28/13 04:32 AM, GeoKureli wrote: I like the blue and red "tightness indicators" you could probably remove the percentages so long as the user understands those indications. I don't know what ludum dare is but is this supposed to be a mobile game?

It's a game jam. http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/ludumdare

So I'm back. Like really back and I'm overlooking some old files that I never completed -- a few collabs, specifically "The Newgrounds Collab" but does anyone still do collabs and such? Is anyone interested in helping partake in the Newgrounds Collab in tribute?

Just curious.

People are collab-ing like crazy now. Plus there's still the collab forum for bigger projects. I think you have to be a supporter to post there.

In other news, I think I'm done my RPG. Few more days until my finals are over, then idk. I want to take summer classes at some local college, but I'm not sure how the application process goes. Make a few small games, start up on the other RPG I revived, then the sequel for this current one. Or I might just relax.

Post what you're all working on!

At 4/28/13 09:01 AM, FlyingColours wrote: It's a game jam. http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/ludumdare

Damn, I wish I'd known.

At 4/28/13 04:37 PM, MSGhero wrote: Post what you're all working on!

I'm still working on the baseball game. Words cannot describe how much I hate it right now, but it's almost done.

At 4/28/13 04:37 PM, MSGhero wrote: Post what you're all working on!

Well, I decided to try out Haxe and made this thingy:
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/119/5/8/haxe_starfiel d_by_skyfire2008-d63gp2d.swf

I'm finishing up my pico day thing this week. Tying up the loose ends and what not.

Heres something dumb.

At 4/29/13 01:16 AM, GeoKureli wrote: I'm still working on the baseball game. Words cannot describe how much I hate it right now, but it's almost done.

I know that feel.

Well, I decided to try out Haxe and made this thingy:
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/119/5/8/haxe_starfiel d_by_skyfire2008-d63gp2d.swf

That looks pretty cool. Reminds me of the effect in Cowboy Bebop when they go through the gates.

At 4/29/13 12:41 PM, Luis wrote: I'm finishing up my pico day thing this week. Tying up the loose ends and what not.

Heres something dumb.

I don't understand the shades craze. Maybe it's because my pic isn't a face.

At 4/29/13 01:03 PM, MSGhero wrote: I don't understand the shades craze. Maybe it's because my pic isn't a face.

it's a meme :P

At 4/29/13 01:28 PM, egg82 wrote: it's a meme :P

I know that, I just don't get why it spread so much. But I guess that's what memes do.

At 4/29/13 01:31 PM, MSGhero wrote: I know that, I just don't get why it spread so much. But I guess that's what memes do.

yeah, it's because meme.

At 4/29/13 01:03 PM, MSGhero wrote: That looks pretty cool. Reminds me of the effect in Cowboy Bebop when they go through the gates.

Actually, it was inspired by the Windows "starfield" screensaver.

At 4/29/13 01:33 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 4/29/13 01:31 PM, MSGhero wrote: I know that, I just don't get why it spread so much. But I guess that's what memes do.

yeah, it's because meme.

yeah its a meme on top of a meme. The red shades meme is newgrounds centric. Hopefully its still going for one more week.

Can't belive i got frontpaged for ludum dare game, im happy :D cheers mates

At 4/29/13 03:45 PM, nitokov wrote: Can't belive i got frontpaged for ludum dare game, im happy :D cheers mates

No problem, buddy.

At 4/29/13 03:45 PM, nitokov wrote: I can't believe I got front page for the ludum dare game, I'm happy :D cheers mates

Congrats, I like how it shows the trail after you die.

ahahah its done, and just in time
http://www.glaielgames.com/ludumdare/genevaconvection.html

At 4/29/13 09:00 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: ahahah its done, and just in time

My death ray keeps blowing up and hitting it with a hammer doesn't seem to help.

At 4/29/13 09:34 PM, GeoKureli wrote:

At 4/29/13 09:00 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: ahahah its done, and just in time

My death ray keeps blowing up and hitting it with a hammer doesn't seem to help.

you gotta keep the cooling room functional, and you gotta not let the charge meter go into the red

At 4/29/13 09:34 PM, GeoKureli wrote:

At 4/29/13 09:00 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: ahahah its done, and just in time

My death ray keeps blowing up and hitting it with a hammer doesn't seem to help.

Is that a euphemism for something else...?

But yeah, mine does too. It won't let me target a 3rd city, it says it's already destroyed.