IIGRAYII
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With the death of Flash Player slowly creeping up, it's scary to think some of our favorite Gaia features might go down with it. Aquariums and Booty Grab are a great source of income to many of us, so now's the time to prove WE CARE about its future. Before it's too late.
SAVE THE DIGITAL FISHIES
If you want Aquariums to survive 2020, share your support and tell the Gaia team just how much you'll miss it
★ please make it clear if you'd like you signature added to the list ★
★ if you don't care for aquariums, that's cool. all I ask is that you remain respectful ★
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I wouldn't consider this a promise that Aquariums will survive, but it's new info.
Lanzer's response in Ask the Staff: October 1, 2019
We are putting together resources to convert some of the current Flash games to HTML5,
meanwhile, there should still be some options to play the flash games on Gaia. We are also looking into having flash support through any stand alone applications, and potentially porting games like zOMG to its own flash app too.
Browsers do not like Flash because the platform is prone to bad flash apps that create security exploits, blocking support on those apps at the expense of all other flash applications that are complete safe to run such as Gaia's flash apps, which is unfortunate.
Some games such as Towns are fairly easy to convert to HTML5, which is what we will do. However others such as Aquarium and zOMG have a lot of animations unique to Flash, and cannot be converted to HTML5 directly. We're hoping to make those games run outside of a browser.
★ ★ ★
With the death of Flash Player slowly creeping up, it's scary to think some of our favorite Gaia features might go down with it. Aquariums and Booty Grab are a great source of income to many of us, so now's the time to prove WE CARE about its future. Before it's too late.
SAVE THE DIGITAL FISHIES
If you want Aquariums to survive 2020, share your support and tell the Gaia team just how much you'll miss it
★ please make it clear if you'd like you signature added to the list ★
★ if you don't care for aquariums, that's cool. all I ask is that you remain respectful ★
UPDATES
occult dad
- this has been on my to-do list since tuesday, but someone asked about bootygrab in ATS and this was Lanzer's reply
I want to say there's hope yet for our little old game. ;;
Darkerdemons
I wouldn't consider this a promise that Aquariums will survive, but it's new info.
Lanzer's response in Ask the Staff: October 1, 2019
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What is your plan for the phase-out of flash in 2020?
What is your plan for the phase-out of flash in 2020?
We are putting together resources to convert some of the current Flash games to HTML5,
meanwhile, there should still be some options to play the flash games on Gaia. We are also looking into having flash support through any stand alone applications, and potentially porting games like zOMG to its own flash app too.
Browsers do not like Flash because the platform is prone to bad flash apps that create security exploits, blocking support on those apps at the expense of all other flash applications that are complete safe to run such as Gaia's flash apps, which is unfortunate.
Some games such as Towns are fairly easy to convert to HTML5, which is what we will do. However others such as Aquarium and zOMG have a lot of animations unique to Flash, and cannot be converted to HTML5 directly. We're hoping to make those games run outside of a browser.
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