[casual_games] future of shockwave

[Jordan Lee]

With flash 8, macromedia really simplified the upgrade process, which is 
good news for you......when flash 7 (possibly 6 as well, not sure) opens 
a swf published with flash 8, it lets you uprade the plugin directly
in the flash movie.  A message apears letting the user know they need to 
upgrade thier flash player to view this content, they click a button to 
upgrade, and thats it.

Also, Im not sure about this, but I think if you don't use some flash 8 
specific features, you can compile it to a flash 7 or even flash 6 swf 
file, while still allowing people with flash 8 to benfit from some of 
the improvements.

Jordan Lee
CTO, 1Gaming Inc.

BRENT SILBY wrote:

> Okay,
> This has been a very useful discussion for me. Its helped us make a 
> few decisions.
>  
> Last night, my friend and new collaborator ported one of my games to 
> Flash 8. He'd already ported it to Director, and the port to Flash 8 
> was a relatively quick process. So, since we can do Flash 8, I think 
> we will abandon Shockwave and use Flash 8. We will, of 
> course, continue to develop dhtml versions of all games because:
> 1) the coolness factor of being able to use dhtml to produce action 
> games (noone else does this), and
> 2) they are easily converted into widgets and gadgets.
>  
> The Flash versions can be used for licensing since they do not suffer 
> from the cross-browser issues that can affect dhtml games.
>  
> So, here is my next question: Does anyone have any data, or 
> predictions on the speed of Flash 8 uptake?
>  
> Thanks for all your comments in this thread,
> Cheers,
> Brent.
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