Monday, August 28, 2017

Pronto Move Shard: A Flash Game Created With a Database

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Pronto Move Shard: A Flash Game Created With a Database

In July, Adobe announced that they plan the end-of-life for Flash to be around 2020. As HTML5 progressed — and due to a long history of critical security vulnerabilities — this is, technologically speaking, certainly the right decision. However, I also became a bit sad.

Flash was the first technology that brought interactivity to the web. We tend to forget how static the web was in the early 2000s. Flash brought life to the web — and there were plenty of stupid trash games and animations that I really enjoyed at the time. As a homage to the age of trashy Flash games, I created a game that resembles the games of this era:

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