Tanki, Flash, Linux, future...

[Mokpama_rapra 5]

Just curios.

Adobe flash player 11.3 is not available for Linux platform. The official statement of Adobe:

"NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. "

 

I have played and enjoyed this game on Linux. In fact, this game won me with its capability to be playable under Linux OS.

I will never revert back to Windows for gaming. Therefore two questions popup:

 

Question #1 - How long Tanki will be backward compatible with Flash player 11.2?

Question #2 - Any chance we see HTML5 version of Tanki?

[Contaminated 129]

Lol Linux.

[r_AdvocatusDiaboli0 861]

#1 - At least until flash 13, because that's when things will actually start to change a lot from 11.

Adobe can change their official statement, 3rd party developers can jump in and make a compatible version for Linux, lots of things can happen.

 

#2 - AFAIK, it'll require making the game from scratch. So, no.

[datie9 72]

koolwalky why you are no developper of tanki?? You know so much about programming stuff 8) 8)

[r_AdvocatusDiaboli0 861]

Good news for Linux users

 

Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html

 

For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the “Pepper” API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.