From a forum post on Newgrounds:
Building a new Flash
I don’t know where to start with this but yeah I’m making flash if flash was built in 2026. I’m making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you’d like to support this project I’ve started a patreon I’ll still post updates here on Newgrounds though :)
It’s a full 2D animation authoring tool — timeline, drawing tools, symbol library, tweening, scripting, the works — built from the ground up in C# with Avalonia and SkiaSharp.
The post has a lot more information and screen shots, too. I thought this was a pretty interesting project this user is undertaking.
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This is super cool! I hope it becomes a viable option for animators, especially in the light of Adobe trying to cancel Animate. (Sure, they kind of walked it back, but I bet people are still nervous after thinking they were about to lose their livelihoods on the whims of Adobe.)
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Wow what a cool project! It looks pretty far along. Flash, for all of its faults, made animation and game dev accessible to many so it’s really exciting that there could be a spiritual successor that compilers to modern web technology.
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https://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1611385
I want to mention I’ve been using Anthropic’s Claude AI heavily throughout this project as a pair programmer, code reviewer, and architecture sounding board. It makes building Blast as a solo dev a lot more realistic.
Oof. Sounded like a cool project though, up until that moment.
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I don’t want to throw it out of the running just yet. Claude being used for programming is exceedingly common, several of the people here in the cafe community also use LLM tools. I’d wait and see how things shake out, if it goes open source, if the programmer doesn’t try to do anything underhanded with it.
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