[evincarofautumn]

I worked on a Flash implementation called Spaceport in 2012 or so. We had the most complete implementation apart from Adobe, with all kinds of goodies like actual hardware-accelerated graphics on mobile (far better than the buggy AIR). Tried to get Mozilla to buy us out, since they were looking for a way to incorporate an open Flash implementation more complete than Shumway, but they didn’t bite. Ended up acquihired by Facebook, product abandoned. I sometimes wonder, if things had gone differently, whether we could have given new life to the Flash ecosystem. Oh well.

[mmastrac]

I was working for Nickelodeon on HTML5 gaming around that time and I think I remember seeing your product. You might have interacted with some of the same people I did!

Does Facebook own your IP? Might be worth investigating whether you can loose it from where ever it lives. There will likely be a flash gaming revival over the next decade as all the kids try to revisit their childhood memories.

[evincarofautumn]

> Does Facebook own your IP?

No, afaik it should still be owned by the startup incubator that was the parent company of Spaceport. We open-sourced some ancillary bits and pieces before leaving, but not the most important components of the platform like the ActionScript compiler, build system, Flash API implementation, and renderer/engine.

I might try to get in touch with them, but open-sourcing it wouldn’t be enough—realistically it would take most of the old team just to get it back shipshape, let alone continue adding features, and I know most of them don’t have the time or desire to do that for free 5–6 years after leaving it behind.