"Simon" <s.d.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:jk053b$sg0$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 16/03/2012 02:28, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "James Miller"<ja...@aatch.net> wrote in message >> news:mailman.733.1331853568.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >>> >>> I hate the fact that Flash games are created the way they are. For >>> one, it's impenetrable to try and learn properly, I had so much >>> trouble figuring out how to do things properly, you can attach scripts >>> to almost any object, but sometimes it might be shared over all of the >>> same objects, and other times only on that instance, depending on how >>> you've placed them on the canvas. >>> >>> I probably wrote some terrible code when I started making Flash games, >>> and now Actionscript is so foreign to me that i can barely understand >>> where to start. >>> > >> One thing I learned though, is that if you're going to make something in >> Flash, your best bet is to use as *little* of what Adobe provides as >> possible: > > You're being rather unfair to Adobe. It was Macromedia that where the > original perpetrators of flash; Adobe brought Macromedia in 2005. > I guessing that they only brought Macromedia for the market share rather > than because they thought flash was actually any good. > > I suffered through a module of Flash/Director around 1999. Action script > was fecking awful but Director actually wasn't that bad. > It was pretty easy to do some neat things so it was easy to see why it was > so popular with *web devs* and mouth breathing marketing types. >
Well, yea Macromedia created most of it, but Adobe now *provides* it ;) And they did choose to buy it. Anyway though, yea, you're right it is mostly Macromedia. Actually the version I started using was still pre-Adobe: MX 2004. But still, it's been about 6 years and Adobe, well they promtly added AS3 (which like I said, I admit I don't know much about since I haven't used it) and then ever since then they seem to have mostly just added bloat. Again though, you're right, Macromedia's responsible for most of what I hate about Flash (Apperently even Flex is their fault, too. I didn't even know that until I looked it up just now).