I'm not a parent so please do enlighten me as to why kids should believe in a made-up entity, up until some arbitrary age at which point they should be told the truth. Is this some perverse initiation to getting your heart broken or something?
I was raised with the whole santa bells & whistles without ever being told "by the way, he's real". As far as childhoods go it was pretty uneventful and christmas was always fun. Did I miss some crucial childhood enlightenment?
I did the whole Santa Clause bit with my two daughters. Part of it was reliving my own childhood and wanting them to have the same fond memories I did. I don't recall a heart break moment for myself when I realized it was all a ruse. My parents never formally told me. It came on as a sneaking suspicion that eventually became obvious as I grew more aware of how the world really works. And I don't ever recall being pissed off at my folks for leading me on like that. There were still presents under the tree, so what did it really matter?
I'll ask my younger daughter in a few years how she sees it. It's especially interesting in her case, because she cracked the code on Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny all at the same moment, when she recognized that the notes she'd been receiving from them were all in the same handwriting, and that didn't add up for her.
You only get to experience that magic once. I'm glad I did.
Some child is going to say that they saw their parents sneak presents and such. Some child is going to naively regurgitate, "after you die, you just get reborn again", which will start a discussion with other children who will retort with their regurgitation, "No, after you die you go to heaven to live forever with your grandma and grandpa."
Not to mention that kids have access to the Internet these days, It will surprise me if there are many kids over the age of 4-5 that actually still believe in Santa unless they really have convinced themselves to do so.
It's more a shared personal tradition than religiously based one, though it can be tied to religion and many people enjoy it that way, though many enjoy it without such tie-ins.
If you can have have all the graphical toolkit and action script to work with for creating the content why do you care what's the output media is as long it preserves all of your original content and functionality?
I don't think there much functionality limitation when you use the current Adobe tools if you decide to export it to HTML5/Canvas rather than to a Flash format.
At this point i don't think that even Adobe wants to maintain flash anymore, it's a liability for them. It was great when you had to have Shockwave/Flash and they pretty much had exclusivity over it, but as long as they still have one of the best professional content creation tool suits around sticking with Flash can only cost them costumers.
http://i.imgur.com/76qMY6c.png
We began 2 blocks left from the bottom right block
EDIT: http://imgur.com/jOHpJqn
EDIT: Wait, maybe you already realize that. Is there a while loop of something that you can use?
EDIT2: You can have more than one direction in a loop block. You can actually solve it with 3 blocks.
It didn't have any fancy animations or games, just a map on Christmas eve showing where Santa had been, and some cool videos about the cities (and an aircraft carrier!) he visited that were narrated by various military (Air Force?) officers.
