For all the faults with Flash (security primarily) it gave so many people an easy way into games development.
We’re missing this today.
Just getting the environment setup for a lot of game engines today is beyond today’s teenagers (and to be fair, me - both in terms of required knowledge and attention span), whereas 40 years ago, you just turned your computer on and boom - a flashing cursor. You had to type things to even load games.
For all the faults with Flash (security primarily) it gave so many people an easy way into games development.
We’re missing this today.
Just getting the environment setup for a lot of game engines today is beyond today’s teenagers (and to be fair, me - both in terms of required knowledge and attention span), whereas 40 years ago, you just turned your computer on and boom - a flashing cursor. You had to type things to even load games.