Look Ma, No Flash! 2Advanced V3 Expansions (2024 Rive Edition)

So, if you've been seriously missing Flash and Actionscript 3 for all your interactive endeavors over the past decade, look no further than our most recent release of the 2Advanced V3 Website, completely rearchitected, reimagined, and redesigned in Rive and React JS (Vite).

V3 Expansions was the 2001 site that helped define a decade of interactive design. FWA later called it the Most Influential Website of the Decade. We did not want a tribute video or a screenshot archive. We wanted the thing itself... rebuilt in the tools of now, with the same pressure, timing, and attitude.

Eric Jordan led creative direction, design, and the Rive animation. Tony Novak built the React architecture that holds the experience together. What started as a two-month experiment became a working partnership with the Rive team... a mutual effort to push the platform while we brought Expansions back online.

This is not nostalgia for its own sake. The decline of Flash left a hole in sophisticated, immersive web work. The rebuild exists to prove that hole can be filled... to provoke new fractals of thought, inspire the next wave of motion and interactive designers, and ask better questions about where this craft goes next.

Enter the rebuild

The live V3 Expansions reboot is up. Source packages for both the 2024 Rive rearchitecture and the original 2001 Flash version are available through the 2Advanced Patreon shop... free at Diamond, discounted for Gold, and available for direct purchase if you just want the files to learn from.