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Ben Colwell's Blog

Hello!

I've been a Flash game developer for about the last 6 years. I love games, and somehow web games are the thing that I really like working on, so here I am!

Ben Colwell's Comments

Comment In: See Epic's Unreal Engine 3 running in HTML5 [News - 05/02/2013 - 04:35]

To be brutally honest HTML5 ...

To be brutally honest HTML5 has some serious problems in the user experience department. On my laptop certainly not a beast, but running the latest Firefox , it takes a good three or four minutes to load this demo, and during that time Firefox becomes unresponsive for about 30 seconds, ...

Comment In: Unity drops Flash support, says Adobe is not firmly committed [News - 04/24/2013 - 05:42]

I remember getting into heated ...

I remember getting into heated arguments online with people in 2010-2011 about the certain doom of Flash. They said Flash would be gone in a couple of years, tops, replaced by the infallible and pure HTML5. Well, it 's 2013... and the arguments sound as weak to me now as ...

Comment In: Flash in the Pan? It's like Déjà vu (Mac 1984) all over again ... [Blog - 03/30/2012 - 11:56]

@William, r n r nFirst ...

@William, r n r nFirst off my question to you would be: Are you planning on releasing a console-quality 3D game on the Flash platform If the answer is yes, then by all means go on complaining about Adobe 's 9 . r n r nBut if you 're like ...

Comment In: Will Flash's new 'premium features' drive game developers away? [News - 03/29/2012 - 06:59]

Flash is getting multi-threading and ...

Flash is getting multi-threading and also a major re-write later this year, as Adobe stated in their roadmap for the platform. Also, it sounds like they have two seperate VMs in Flash player, one for the legacy stuff, and one for the newer AS3 stuff. r n r nI don ...

Comment In: Adobe announces Unity partnership, charging for 'premium features' [News - 03/28/2012 - 06:09]

@Lars: r nI agree with ...

@Lars: r nI agree with your sentiment about too many nibbles getting only 70 from your hard work is tough to swallow , but let 's not be too quick to hate on Adobe in this case. I actually read the info on Adobe 's page, and here 's an ...

   

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