[casual_games] future of shockwave

[Charles Parcell]

Brent,

If you guys are going to go with Flash game development, then I would 
strongly suggest you guys invest in some why to secure your SWF files. 
Because SWF format is an open format, there are a lot of developers who 
will decompile your swf files.  Thus, I would look into SWF Encrypt.

<http://www.amayeta.com/software/swfencrypt/>

Charles P.


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.