Wick
Creative
animation editor
SHOW HN2016
322points
63comments
#53of 2,264 in 2016
Top 3%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
14 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 8 critical, out of 51 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 5 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good replacement for Flash IDE and a fun way to learn programming
From 3 comments
This is awesome! Wick reminds me of HyperCard. I fell in love with programming as a kid because of HyperCard (and its HyperTalk programming language). I hope Wick likewise…
hugs on HNThis is nice, I really missed the Flash IDE's paradigm for game creation. The timeline and visual nature of the IDE made making a game a hell of a lot easier, especially for…
xatan_dank on HNThis is great. If it had some basic drawing tools integrated (+ a bit more polish on the UI), it would be a killer tool for kids and non-programmers to get their feet wet with…
dperfect on HN
Flappy Ghost demo is fun
From 2 comments
Minor victory today. After pushing all my keys I finally figured out how to play "Flappy Ghost".
Xeoncross on HNThe Flappy Ghost demo made my day. Also fun to look around in the editor to see how it was implemented.
hugs on HN
Open, community-funded alternative to Adobe and big tech
From 1 comment
This looks like it could be a more modern interpretation of what Apple's Hypercard was trying to be. Flash did this very well but, the technology and corporate ecosystem around…
slackstation on HN
Objections
Mobile and iPad layout broken, zoom disabled
From 3 comments
This site doesn't work for me on iOS: the content doesn't fit on screen and the scroll is broken (i.e. I cannot scrol at all)
dkersten on HNClosed in rage mode on mobile. Zoom disabled? Rly?
salzig on HNNice work, I like it. Two peeves: 1) Mobile is broken (iPad). Maybe you don't expect a lot of mobile users but it's not a lot of extra work, and can be productive for large…
WhitneyLand on HN
Vague name and description, unclear what it is
From 3 comments
Pretty cool idea, though it's advertised rather vaguely. It's basically an HTML5-based Flash alternative with an HTML5-based editor. The menu bar disappeared after a few seconds…
cryptarch on HNAgreed, if the creator added something like "media creation suite" instead of "creation suite" it'd be a bit more clear.
SpaceDingus9000 on HNWhat is a 'creation suite'?
GordonS on HN
Menu bar disappears and UI polish issues
From 2 comments
Pretty cool idea, though it's advertised rather vaguely. It's basically an HTML5-based Flash alternative with an HTML5-based editor. The menu bar disappeared after a few seconds…
cryptarch on HNThis is great. If it had some basic drawing tools integrated (+ a bit more polish on the UI), it would be a killer tool for kids and non-programmers to get their feet wet with…
dperfect on HN
Output files are very large
From 1 comment
I balked at the output, which was 1.9MB for KitchenSink.html which showed up in editor as 3,902 lines and 707,605 columns, by simply adding 3 characters to the template provided.…
zhte415 on HN
Requests
Make the mobile site and editor work on touch devices
From 2 comments
Nice work, I like it. Two peeves: 1) Mobile is broken (iPad). Maybe you don't expect a lot of mobile users but it's not a lot of extra work, and can be productive for large…
WhitneyLand on HNI agree that editing on a small screen-sized phone would be silly. But targeting phones for playback of Wick-created content would be a worthy goal. Also a worthy goal would be…
hugs on HN
Add drawing tools and better UI polish
From 1 comment
This is great. If it had some basic drawing tools integrated (+ a bit more polish on the UI), it would be a killer tool for kids and non-programmers to get their feet wet with…
dperfect on HN
Add motion tweens to the GUI
From 2 comments
I love this so much — I got into programming with AS2 in the Flash MX days and although it's great that HTML5 replaced Flash as a platform, the lack of a replacement tool has…
idreyn on HNHi idreyn, we actually have motion tweens implemented! (They're just not represented in the GUI as well as they should be yet) We'll have a demo up for them soon!
luxapodular on HN
Set up a funding model such as Patreon
From 2 comments
This looks like it could be a more modern interpretation of what Apple's Hypercard was trying to be. Flash did this very well but, the technology and corporate ecosystem around…
slackstation on HNHey! Creator here - I agree, it's super important to get Wick self-sustaining as soon as possible. Part of that is definitely to start getting some core developers involved and…
azamat-bagatov on HN
Questions
What is the license?
From 1 comment
What's the license? (I don't see any explicitly mentioned in the source repo.)
hugs on HN
What is a creation suite?
From 1 comment
What is a 'creation suite'?
GordonS on HN
Alternatives named
Adobe Flash IDE
From 2 comments
This is nice, I really missed the Flash IDE's paradigm for game creation. The timeline and visual nature of the IDE made making a game a hell of a lot easier, especially for…
xatan_dank on HNJust saw the right arrow description thing and played with a bit (it's in-browser) -- seems like toward the Flash IDE.
nikki93 on HN
HyperCard
From 2 comments
This is awesome! Wick reminds me of HyperCard. I fell in love with programming as a kid because of HyperCard (and its HyperTalk programming language). I hope Wick likewise…
hugs on HNThis looks like it could be a more modern interpretation of what Apple's Hypercard was trying to be. Flash did this very well but, the technology and corporate ecosystem around…
slackstation on HN
Fabric.js
From 1 comment
You might want to take a look at Fabric.js, while it lacks keyframe based animations, it does support other things. http://fabricjs.com/kitchensink
aub3bhat on HN