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>Is authorship of new titles even a possibility

We still write fresh new AS3 code at $work. All IDEs and tooling are running fine on W10/W11.

Curious, are you writing Adobe Air apps? I assume the only reason anyone would be writing new AS3 code is to maintain an old Adobe Air app. I ask because the I maintain one and I find the tooling and IDE experience brittle and horrible.

We had one Air app, but it got rewritten into Unity (mobile) and is now retired. No, this one is a real Flash app (MMO game), users run it in one of two ways:

- flash plugin bundled into electron, for players with old hardware, ~30% user base

- Flash transpiled into TypeScript transpiled into ES5 JS, with custom runtime based on WebGL

The whole runtime is kinda like Ruffle, but we don't support all Flash capabilities, just what was required to make app running (but it's still a lot of API surface).

What do you use for the Flash authoring?

IIRC, some version of Adobe Creative Suite.

Thanks. :)

Why? For what? Flash/flex is dead?

It's a profitable game with an active user base, some of which are stuck on old HW, which can't run WebGL. Flash, surprisingly, is still better at graphics than what current browsers provide.

Realm of the Mad God?

No, it's some Farmville clone.

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