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The thing about epic flah games is, that they take time to load. Most authors use preloader scripts in their flash games so that the entire flash file loads before any of it is of use, so that it plays faster. If the author didn't use a preloader script and just let the flash file load while the client was playing, it could have a performance hit, and gamers would soon be put off.
P.S. I don't like the idea of using flash, it's too different from conventional code. Flash is based on frames which are acted upon by Action script. If someone where to re-write the Dink engine for flash, it would probably only use a couple of frames, but these frames would have an immense amount of Action script in them, which I don't think is what flash was originally designed for. Java or a mix of scripts could be used instead. However, if Javascript were to be used, how would it get moving images on screen without lag? Would all important graphics have to be in memory?
P.S. I don't like the idea of using flash, it's too different from conventional code. Flash is based on frames which are acted upon by Action script. If someone where to re-write the Dink engine for flash, it would probably only use a couple of frames, but these frames would have an immense amount of Action script in them, which I don't think is what flash was originally designed for. Java or a mix of scripts could be used instead. However, if Javascript were to be used, how would it get moving images on screen without lag? Would all important graphics have to be in memory?
