ADOBEEEEEEEEE (Animate Update) on Artix Entertainment

Greetings friend!

Boy, do I have some good and bad news. In the past 24 hours, I learned that Ruffle (a Javascript Flash emulator) just had a massive breakthrough that could allow AdventureQuest Worlds and our other Flash games to be played in your web browser again. We have used it for our minigames at EbilGames, but Ruffle has a memory leak issue which prevents us from using it on our bigger games. So news of a promising fix is beyond exciting!

Right after getting that good news, our artists & I just got a bad news email from Adobe telling them that they are discontinuing Adobe Animate on March 1st. (...That is next month.)

You have to be kidding me… O_O

Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) is the tool we use to draw and animate AQWorlds and our other 2D games. We are in the process of contacting Adobe to work out a solution. Adobe said that our copies of Animate will keep functioning. They will just stop receiving technical support and updates. We have over a year to solve this problem. In the worst case scenario, this means we might have to change how we create content for the games.

Fortunately, this will have no impact on any of our games. You will still be able to log in and play on your accounts. And on the upside, AQWorlds: Infinity does not require Adobe Animate at all.

At least this year is not off to a boring start.

Battle on!
Artix (Adam)

Quick Summary

The games are fine. The Adobe Animate update will have no impact on the games currently running.
You will still be able to log in and play on your accounts.
AQWorlds: Infinity gets a big thumbs up for not requiring Adobe Animate at all.