It's good that we have the runtime to run old Flash games. What we lost is an extremely easy environment for authoring/creating them. Nothing has come even close since Flash. Not just game, but any kind of interactions and animations on the web.

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ssl-3 3 days ago | parent [-]

Where did the tools go?

Can a person not run Flash authoring tools with an era-appropriate operating system in a VM or something?

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Aardwolf 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Having to run it in a VM already makes it less approachable

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troupo 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's the only way I guess. What I meant, with the death of Flash, nothing appeared to offer the same tools for any other web technology

	▲	ssl-3 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think perhaps what was lost is mostly this: Macromedia. They had a knack for making content creation simple. Flash was just one of the results of this: It let people create seemingly-performant, potentially-interactive content that ran almost universally on the end-user computers of the time -- and do it with relative ease because the creation tools existed and were approachable. Macromedia also provided direction, focus, and marketing; more of the things that allowed Flash to reach saturation. Someone could certainly come up with an open JS stack that accomplishes some of the same things in a browser on a modern pocket supercomputer. And countless people certainly have. But without forces like marketing to drive cohesion, simplicity, and adoption then none of them can reach similar saturation.