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What's funny is the original CS:GO gui was built using flash.



For anyone interested, they used Scaleform which is a middleware a lot of games would use to have flash-based UI. It's technically a discontinued product but even Hitman 3 last year used it.

As crappy as Flash is for security, it was such a good tool for interactive animations.

Here's a list of games that used Scaleform, though it often isn't used as the only UI system. Sometimes it's just main menus or world-space UI elements. Found in a quick Google so I can't guarantee it's totally accurate, but I know many on here are correct.

https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_games_using_Scaleform


When I was doing work for Nickelodeon around the iPad 1 days, we just could not get around the fact that flash was an amazing tool for animation and anything else we used would have tradeoffs. Tech-wise, a poor product. As a tool for design-minded people? Unmatched.


Flash "for animations" still exists. It was rebranded Adobe Animate (presumably just to avoid the negative branding).

It's still used heavily for vector animations to my knowledge.


I didn't know this - thanks!




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