Adobe to Put Focus on HTML5: Major Slots News

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In the online slots world, almost all games for desktop are based around Macromedia Flash. However, it's not a platform that works as well on the mobile games, and that's something that online casino software companies have had to deal with in recent years. The newer platform that works better for mobile (and that works well for desktop as well) is HTML5, but it's not a simple task to move a game from Flash to HTML5. Now software developers are going to have more of an incentive than ever after the creators of Flash have endorsed HTML5 instead.

Java was the original software platform used for mobile slots. While it didn't offer much in the way of graphics or a wide range of options for creating a cool experience, it was the first time that anyone had slots available on a mobile device, so it was a pretty big deal. Macromedia Flash completely changed the game and allowed some pretty advanced games to run on mobile platforms. In today's world, however, software and hardware have both advanced to the point that it's time for a new kid on the block, and that new kid is HTML5.

There are problems for switching over to HTML5 for developers. One problem is that it takes real resources to move a game over to the new platform because it essentially has to be rebuild from scratch, and because players are currently able to enjoy the Flash version of a game without any repercussions, it doesn't make sense in the short term to put those resources into a new version of the same game. Over the long term, however, companies like Microgaming have recognized that there's going to be an issue, and that's why you see so many news stories of them switching a game over to HTML5 or releasing new titles with this software platform.

Microgaming has always been one of the main innovators when it comes to new technology in this industry, and they've really taken the lead with HTML5 slots as far as established, "old guard" online casino software developers go. They're showing that companies with an already-established portfolio of hundreds of games can start the process of switching over to HTML5, and that's a pretty big incentive for other companies to follow them because Microgaming is hardly ever wrong about which direction technology is going in the online casino world.

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