Games: Adobe´s last hope for flash?
A while ago Adobe honcho Mike Chambers posted a blog post regarding being into adding game dev centric features into flash.
For a bit i thought: Way late to the party man, but better late than never!
But then i thought some more about why Adobe could suddenly have some interest in actually supporting game developers rather than neglecting them as they did for ages.
Then it became way more obvious when i checked out some more recent html 5 demos and then reading up on the current discussions about settling on native video playback via the browser:
To me it looks like anything flash was used for in the browser in the past could quite soon be doable within a browser alone without any plugin. Nifty animations, transtions, effects etc, just like anything to do the hyped up RIAs and once they settle down on that even video playback.
All that is needed in a while could be a propper editor for all this stuff.
What is left there?
GAMES.
Sure, maybe with time, at least 2D games could be done better and better with the html 5/canvas stuff, too but i think as games really bring all the other fields together it would take longest till the dominance of flash in that field would be surpassed by what one can achieve to get running in the browser alone without any plugin.
Without any flaming etc, what do you guys think about all this?
Do you think flash will still hold its strong position once the html 5/canvas stuff becomes more common? Where would you like to see it go?