[ragona]

Yeah that’s a huge oversight. AS3 was in fact the highest paid language in the industry for some time, and it was all of the social games. Then we all mostly jumped ship to mobile or PC or VR or whatever.

But it was a very significant industry, every major games company had divisions building FB games, we had games hitting 20+ million DAU overnight, it was big business.

I made Flash games (among other things) at Sony, Disney, PopCap, and Amazon. I’m not sure people understand how widely it was used.

Now... I also saw the writing on the wall and made a hasty exit in 2012 because it was clearly dying. But for a while it was a vibrant and well-paying niche.

[meheleventyone]

The videogame industry is terrible at knowing about anything that isn’t in the ‘cool’ bubble. FB games were definitely deeply uncool and whilst people will have heard about and even played them they will never be part of games haiography. Same thing with games like Neopets and other predominately ‘girl’ games.

Even stuff like Roblox is only just getting noticed by game development influencers and it’s a huge platform pointing at the road towards the next big thing in games.

[ragona]

Yeah Roblox is nuts, when my son talks about a “new game he’s playing” he’s usually talking about Roblox.