Building a new Flash
26 points by edwardloveall
26 points by edwardloveall
A new Flash authoring tool would be fantastic, but I'd be wary of this.
The author is promising an incredibly ambitious and broad collection of functionality implemented all at once, offering a few tantalizing static screenshots of the tool, assuring folks it will be open-source when it's done, and asking for donations. The readme is packed with em-dashes and even a distressingly familiar sentence structure:
Not just play them back — edit them.
This is based on slop, and beyond that probably vaporware.
Yea, "This isn’t a proof of concept or a weekend project. It’s a real authoring environment. Here’s where things stand" is where the record came to a screeching halt for me.
I hate that this is happening now. Especially for a project like this that tugs at people's heartstrings. People harbor a lot of feelings for Flash and that era of computing in general, many of them positive.
Looks awesome, doesn't seem to be a way to try it out. I was hoping the next Flash would run in the browser :-)
I'm kind of surprised no one capitalized on the decline of Flash, especially now that it's discontinued without any successor from Adobe or otherwise. Both in the niches of 2D animation tools (it seems like Toonboom/Harmony are the last ones left?), and in rich site authoring tools (for web-based RAD and flashy animated sites; in the HTML5 era it seems you have to get devs and designers to do it by hand).
Who is this person, and why should we trust them to deliver?