On: Fixing a Bug in an 18 Year Old Shockwave Game

[hnzix]

Director had depth and power, while Flash was very accessible to illustrator/designer types. That era saw some amazing net.art demoscene type pieces that have no modern equivalent (Joshua Davis / flight404 etc). Haiku.ai is doing some interesting work in that space.

I wonder if WebAssembly can bring back this classic art aesthetic. The key is a great IDE with strong graphics asset management.

[pjmlp → hnzix]

Flash still lives on as Animate, and for a while they even had a native code compiler for mobile deployments.

I guess anti-Flash community just lost track of it.

[donatj → hnzix]

I’ve wondered recently if it would be possible to convert flash or shockwave to WASM and preserve some of these old relics.

[giancarlostoro → donatj]

That's one of the goals in a discord I'm a part of. The concern is whether or not WebSockets is adequate enough for this too. There will likely be a need for JavaScript in any regard. It's interesting that Director did support JS in some form for a while too, but everyone always writes the decompilers for the Lingo syntax.