Flash is the biggest games platform in the world, it has been for over a decade. It is not going to disappear anytime soon, and those kids got a good education in how to make game regardless of the platform, hopefully. Unity are right to do this, Adobe is comfortable but stagnated. We used flash to output animations to…
For being a fad, Flash gaming has been longer around than some consoles ;) But you're right - if you expect your platform, and the skills needed for that platform, will be around forever you're pretty foolish. Teach game development as "making games for platform X" is just the same idiocy as teaching game art as "using DCC…
This is not surprising. A little story to go along with this: Over at the LA Film School, they started a game program in which to teach and get students a job in the industry. I noticed something odd, they based the entire program around flash and flash game development. When I asked what they were thinking, the program…