What Happens to Flash-Powered Facebook Games When Adobe Scuttles the Format in 2020?
Open web standards like HTML5 are among the options
What will happen to games on Facebook that are powered by Flash in the wake of Adobe’s announcement Tuesday that the format will be phased out by the end of 2020?
Facebook partner engineering manager Jakub Pudelek announced in a blog post Tuesday that the social network is teaming up with Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Unity on a migration path for developers with Flash-powered games on Facebook.
Pudelek pointed to open web standards like WebGL and HTML5, discussing Facebook’s focus on the latter by noting that more than 200 HTML5 games are live on Facebook, most of which are less than one year old, and adding that developers including King and Plarium have migrated at least one Flash game to HTML5 on Facebook “with minimal impact to their existing customers.”
He also suggested that developers explore making their games available via Gameroom, Facebook’s desktop gaming application for PCs, which supports native and web formats including cocos2D, HTML5,...
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