Adobe Is Killing A Popular Animation And Game Development Program
2 52Adobe has emailed users of Adobe Animate to let them know the popular animation and game development program will be discontinued on March 1, an abrupt decision that has angered animators and game developers who say the tool remains an industry standard in television and game production.
Animate, the successor to the once-popular Flash, is widely used for graphic creation, animation and building games in HTML5. The company has not offered a reason for the shutdown. On BlueSky, artist and animator Julia Glassman wrote that many television productions, games, and animated media still rely on Animate and Flash pipelines and cannot simply pivot to entirely new software.
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"Again, Charlie Brown. Again, and again, & aga (Score: 5, Insightful)
by Pseudonymous Powers ( 4097097 ) on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:11AM (#65966502)
If only there were some precedent for software developers or even specifically Adobe behaving in this way that could have warned the users that this sort of thing might happen.
why not? (Score: 5, Insightful)
by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) on <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:12AM (#65966506)
many television productions, games, and animated media still rely on Animate and Flash pipelines and cannot simply pivot to entirely new software.
"cannot"? Why not? Is this one of Adobe's cloud-only programs? Nope, wikipedia to the rescue:
So... the software (which is, by the way, Flash) will continue to work as long as Windows doesn't change too much underneath it, and will receive enterprise support for FOUR YEARS. If you cannot "pivot" away from Flash in FOUR YEARS then you deserve to fail. Most media in current production won't even still be made in four years.