#ActionScript

[roymakes]

Rediscovered this treasure. My bible circa 2009; discovered I still use most of the tricks I learned from this book today. Animating waves using masks, proper gradients, animation principles, etc. Its advice is still relevant even after Flash's demise.

I had a lot of game ideas I wanted to make in Flash, most of which never escaped their notepad concept. Had a few successes, a Tetris-blackjack combo called DiceJack, and Rawrysaurus, a kaiju game where you escaped from a tidal wave. My first forays into game dev.

Thanks Chris Georgenes.

[yiebackenddev]

[bradthebad]

so I dont forget

[jefflaflamme]

When I managed my animation production company, this was our last website (created in Adobe Animate).

It was fully animated (popping bubbles, marquee, fire, clouds, etc.), but ActionScript was to become a thing of the past.

[forwardcode]

From the great classic.

Slowed to -14% via screwmycode.in.

[dgbybora]

Escuela Highlands San Martín. Sitio web diseñado y desarrollado para Flash. Desarrollo de administrador de contenidos, carga de archivos y rotación de banner manualmente. Diseño y elaboración de banners flotantes.

[loveletterworm]

briefly going to break the order i upload artfight attacks in because i just made this just now (for @decamarks)

Yes its a real actual flash game i did say i remembered i knew how to make those last night. Only problem is that inexplicably the code to have buttons change what frame another movieclip is on has inexplicably permanently stopped working in every single new file I make?? (but still works on the old one from last year?? it is the exact same code) There were supposed to be like 5 or 6 other faces I drew them even but they are inaccessible because ???????. It's impossible to troubleshoot actionscript 2.0. Everyone who has ever had a problem with it had that problem in 2012 and the response they recieved was "just use actionscript 3.0". I don't want to use actionscript 3.0. All the ancient archived deviantart tutorials I learned my powers from use 2.0. If I can't rely on them I have nothing.

So with my buttons taken from me I instead had nothing left to do but just see how many silly hats I could come up with, but also not so many silly hats that I would need say, a second page, because that would require to me to use a button, which I cannot use anymore, because the withered ghost of adobe flash is sentient and hates me specifically.

I got 38.5 points for this entire endeavor

[cheezpectations]

Flash lives on in my laptop :]

Uninstalled Adobe Animate 2024 and installed Flashes 8 and CS6 in it's place :3

[darudedogestorm]

I won't lie I don't think there's a single time i've used ruffle emulator and had it actually work. Not once.

[crystal-wingeddragon-spikes]

My fan made Animation vs Coding part 2

Do you think stick figure AI would "assume" data type of all number to be float, double, or decimal?

...What? This is not a well-known fun fact outside STEM community?

So many people have this problem, someone made a whole webpage explaining it.

More organic explanation here; Defining a right data type is a big deal in programming. At least the programmer who manually assign it float/double would know why it went wrong.

JavaScript, however, will automatically assign an appropriate data type, and is advertised to be more beginner-friendly... Can you see why this became a meme?

0.1 and 0.2 will be considered double data type, which can't be accurate expressed in base 2.

There is only (1/2), (1/4), (1/8), ... ,(1/(2 power n)) in base 2.

It can't accurately express (1/10 and 2/10), but it still makes a very good approximation. That is why it is only 0.00000000000000004 off.

This is why in most statistic analysis and calculator use decimal data type. Or banking uses fixed-point numbers data. They both have their limitation; Decimal requires more computing power, which mean more specialized device. While fixed-point works fine with money because it's transferring money, not doing maths. It would never have to deal with 0.3333333... dollar.

Do you know what language is from the same family as JavaScript? That's right, it's Flash's programming language, ActionScript.

I told you my Computer Science grade was horrid, but this is very basic, so I am more confident explaining it.

[semi-sketchy]

losing my mind how did I not see this several days ago

My questions are endless, like...last we heard Classic was being held together by duct tape and prayers, but now they're talking about EXPANDING on it? 5 years ago, Karl told us that it literally wasn't possible, they couldn't justify translating the game to an updated language, that's why they made Next, to have a game they could build upon. BUT NOW THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT RESTORING THE SITE TO ITS FORMER GLORY?

Like this can't just be a translation plug in, right? ActionScript is dead and Karl said that's what was keeping them from fixing a bunch of bugs and making new features. So...are they really rewriting the entire game in a new code?

is this real. I know it's the official site and I'm looking at it but is this real it seems like a dream

[inpermanences]

found a archived version of the full post https://web.archive.org/web/20160315011814/http://stanleystash.tumblr.com/post/139703980212/ive-done-it-couldnt-get-the-actionscript-to

and I found another link to the interactive Stan game on the https://web.archive.org/web/20161207021959/http://stanleystash.tumblr.com/page/10

but I doubt the game will be able to be found unless someone downloaded it. It seems the game was hosted using byethost as a hosting website and It's most definitely not up anymore. Maybe someone out there still has it or op would someone see this post and share it again (despite deleting their blog </3)

HOW DID YOU…

Okay, two questions. They used the byethost as a url of sorts? So even if someone were to find the link to the game, it wouldn’t be able to open because the hosting site shut down?

How are you able to use the Wayback Machine with tumblr? Every time I try it just brings me to tumblrs dead end screen.

[ghost-opal]

How serendipitous! I JUST swung by your blog to ask a homestuck animation question or two (coming from your 'how to make [s] pages in 2023+' guide) I was wondering about, say, what if you're trying to emulate that sort of style of animation (But using it for a plain video like an Animatic rather than worrying about hosting it on HTML5?) or Would it just be better to use a different program and just try to physically emulate the feel from scratch?

adobe animate lets you export .mov videos which can be transcoded to mp4 by another program like handbrake or shutter encoder, or if u have adobe media encoder u can export straight to mp4. if you're doing either, I'd recommend making an actionscript instead of an html5 canvas animate project because it'll be less of a headache to work with (actionscript also has more features such as motion blur)

however you dont really need animate specifically for this, the principle of just sliding images with a 1 frame twitch is kind of universal lol. animate is just useful because its very geared towards sliding around images on a fixed timeline.

really, if you don't plan on adding interactivity to an [s] page, i recommend actionscript -> video transcoding. it loads faster, doesnt lag and is easier to make. if you need interactivity then go html5 since its the most compatible, or you can just use actionscript and put that thru ruffle emulator hoping it doesn't lag or look weird

[nor3gertz]

WHAT GAME DID YOU MADE IN FLASH.

just sum stupid ass game for my final year project, although i wouldnt say its flash bc flash is outdated... used Adobe Animate and boy do i HATE ActionScript. its buggy as hell i wouldnt want to show this stuff here its embarrassing 💔💔💔its a one man project, i did all the storyboards, character designs, animations, music & sfx. Even a "poster" for it. shouldve done it on Unity just like the rest of the FYP students in my category. could rly learn C++ and C#

heres a snippet from one of the game screenies idk what its called but its when the player dies in one of the levels and its supposed to show Game Over on the empty space there.... yep

[starkieredix]

Yay! I made my 2nd flash game! But on this time, to celebrate Halloween, I made a some kind of dress up game about Pumpkin. I think, I took on this 2-3 hours, because I'm still learning Actionscript language, but, hey, I drew all of this with MOUSE only!

So, Happy Halloween!

[loveletterworm]

nothing makes you miss the era of flash games more than for no reason gaining the ability to make them after they were already largely killed...Like what did i learn this for...Where do i even put these...just not a very practical hobby these days...