Gamesta.com picks up on some interesting news for aspiring game developers (and fans as well). Right now, Adobe is giving away their Creative Suite family to anyone who registers a free account. This includes programs like Photoshop and Illustrator for $0! Get these indispensable art tools right now and start making games!
GameDynamo - A lot of developers are looking to Adobe's Flash Player to get their games out there, and the company is looking for better ways for them to do so. As such, the company unveiled the latest version of the software, Flash Player 11.2, along with the newest iteration of Adobe AIR, version 3.2. If all goes as Adobe hopes, developers will be able to bring their creations to the hundreds of millions of PCs with Flash Player installed (that's no exaggeration, folks) with greater ease than before."
"If all goes as Adobe hopes"
Well... they can always bump into a Firm that boldly sais that your products are rubbish. Let's hope Adobe has learned from the past.
For starters, let's look at the possibilities.
GameDynamo - At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Vice President Mark Rein gave a presentation showing off some of the newest tricks the Unreal Engine is capable of. The Highlights of the presentation included demos of Epic Citadel, Dungeon Defenders, and Unreal Tournament III running at full screen on Adobe Flash.
Could OnLive benefit from Adobe's decision to pull the plug on mobile flash? They very well could.
Adobe should of focus on HTML5 a long time ago. Flash is good for Desktops but not all that good for mobile, if you care about your battery life.
For all these tools, the open source equivalents are ahead of nearly all these tools. Plus, any aspiring developer should stay as FARRRR away from Adobe as possible. What a waste of time really.
I agree with Ghoul on this one. I like Adobe, but its still good to know open source software as well. You never know if you're going to be pitted with a situation where you don't have access to your own software.
A free legit copy of Photoshop can be pretty handy for my art stuff c: