![]() If, as a game developer, you already invested a lot of time and energy in Air over the years, it makes sense to stick with that platform for the time being, and wait what Harman will do with the platform.īut advising a newbie to invest themselves in Air for game development? I just don't think that is a good idea. (Although you will find a visual tool like Construct is hard to beat for churning out quick game prototypes!) ![]() With excellent (visual) IDEs.Īnd I never said Air is dead or not useful for rapid game prototyping. And therefore, if a person is interested in getting into game development with no prior experience, modern, up-to-date, very well supported and proven solutions with active communities are available instead NOW. I do think Air received almost no support in the past few years from Adobe, and that the community has dwindled to a shadow of its former self. I have no negative impressions of Air (the tech) itself. And I answered, just like you, that without reasonable programming skills it is not possible to accomplish this in Animate, and since the OP seemed interested in a no-programming solution, I offered a list of viable alternatives which all work well and provide fast workflows. Yes, the OP asked about Animate within the context of being able to create games without programming. And many online tutorials as well.Īnimate can still be used to generate assets and graphics for use in these game development environments, of course. And all four are actively developed and supported. Unity with PlayMaker plugin (Unity is free, PlayMaker is not)Īll of these export games to the web (browser games), Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux. Although, as Joseph mentioned, good Javascript programming skills are required to develop a game in Animate.Ī number of game creation options exist which do not require (manual) coding: ![]() Harman has taken over the development of the Air runtime/SDK, but has already stated the updated runtime (supporting 64bit) will cost money.Īnother option is to export to html5 from Animate, and convert to a mobile app using Cordova or PhoneGap, for example. For native mobile games development Animate + Air is arguably an outdated proposition for a newbie to learn at this point, with too many uncertainties.Īdobe no longer supports Air, and Google requires 64bit apps by August 1st, which the current (free) version of Air does not support.
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