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Adobe kills Flash for mobile in favor of HTML5
15 Nov 2011 by Craig Lloyd
That’s it, folks. Adobe Flash Player for mobile devices has officially packed up its bags and walked out the door never to be seen again. Of course, Flash for desktop operating systems will live on (and probably not all that well), but Adobe has decided that Flash on mobile devices just isn’t in the cards. Many critics may think that the sole reason behind this was that Apple didn̵...
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Google’s Swiffy Converts SWF Files to HTML5
30 Jun 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 1 Comment
Amidst of all the recent announcements from Google comes a lesser-known feature that’s available now in Google Labs. It’s a small service called Swiffy, and it will convert SWF (the file format for Flash) files into HTML5 versions for use in most modern browsers like Chrome and Safari. Google says the process works by first converting the SWF file into a JSON file, then rendering it u...
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Friday Fun! Relive Fond Memories With Organ Trail
29 Oct 2010 by Kevin Schulte / 2 Comments
The Organ Trail is a re-imagining of the classic Oregon Trail, except set in the present day and with zombies. It features throwback graphics and classic controls.
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Friday Fun! Expand Your Gaming Horizons With ‘The Day’
01 Oct 2010 by Kevin Schulte
This week’s edition of Friday Fun is a bit of a departure from the usual games we feature. While it’s still technically a Flash game, The Day is more interactive fiction than it is an addictive time waster like most Flash games. Gameplay is incredibly simple, and much greater emphasis is placed on atmosphere and storytelling. You play the role of Tia, a young girl celebrating her birth...
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Friday Fun! Why Do Homework When You Can Procrastinate With Liferaft: Zero?
27 Aug 2010 by Kevin Schulte
With school starting for many of our readers (myself included), what better way to celebrate than with another edition of Friday Fun? After all, Flash games are the ultimate procrastination tool! Liferaft: Zero is a devious blend of the setting from Portal, the acrobatics of N, and the frustrating difficulty of Jumper. You play the role of a series of clones, hopping through obstacle courses under...
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Friday Fun! Get That Fake Sense of Accomplishment In Achievement Unlocked 2
13 Aug 2010 by Kevin Schulte
If you’ve played a game on a major gaming platform in the past few years, chances are you’re familiar with achievements. Games on the Xbox 360 have them in the form of a Gamerscore, where certain actions in games gain you points that are displayed in your profile. The Playstation 3 has platinum, gold, silver, and bronze trophies. Most Steam games come with achievements that can be earn...
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How to Install Adobe Flash Player Without Installing Adobe’s DLM (Download Manager) Browser Plugin
28 Jul 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 21 Comments
Most of us use Adobe Flash, that’s simply a fact of the internet. YouTube, Hulu, Pandora, and dozens of other sites currently use Flash to provide you with interactive media and applications, and until HTML5 (hopefully) gives us a viable alternative, we’re stuck with it in many ways. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t mind Flash. What I dislike is when Adobe starts forc...
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Friday Fun! Get Your RTS On In Pixel Legions
16 Jul 2010 by Kevin Schulte / 2 Comments
In this week’s Friday Fun, I bring you a Flash game with a bit more depth than previous entries. Pixel Legions takes the complexity of most modern real-time strategy games and boils it down into its most basic form, perfect for the Flash game format. In Pixel Legions there is only one unit type, the humble pixel. Groups of pixels are spawned in regular intervals at your square base. Pixel gr...
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Friday Fun! Get Your Flash Game Fill With Morplee
09 Jul 2010 by Kevin Schulte / 3 Comments
Kick back and relax, it’s Friday! What better way to pass the time at work than with a Flash game? Morplee follows the WarioWare format of throwing mini-games at you and seeing how fast you react. You’re given 60 seconds to complete 25 mini-games, running the gamut from frantically clicking as fast as you can to solving simple math problems. The twist is that the mini-games are stacked...
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Adobe and NVIDIA Collaborating on GPU Acceleration for Flash
03 Jun 2009 by Dustin Patterson
Adobe and NVIDIA announced today that GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) acceleration will be included in future releases of the Adobe Flash Player. Both Adobe and NVIDIA are part of the Open Screen Project, a collaborative project intended to bring rich internet applications to the desktop by taking advantage of the full capabilities of Adobe Flash. The number of devices to be support is large an...
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