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by spicyjpeg 161 days ago
Custom Flash players were actually relatively common in game development during the mid to late 2000s, as Flash provided a ready-to-go authoring solution for UI and 2D animation that artists were already familiar with. Autodesk's Scaleform was probably the most popular implementation but a number of AAA developers had their own in-house libraries similar to Doom 3's; some of them, such as Konami's "AFP" [1], are still in use to this day (the latest game to use it, Sound Voltex Nabla, was released last month).

[1]: https://github.com/DragonMinded/bemaniutils/blob/trunk/beman...