[casual_games] Question About Adobe/Macromedia Director as a Development Platform....

[Jonas Beckeman]

> Does the program offer a rich enough development platform and scripting

> language for Puzzle or Action games? I'm familiar with Lingo, but do not

> know how the language has developed in the past few years to address the

> needs of casual game developers.


Lingo hasn't evolved for a long time, it's still the same old quirky  
language. More importantly, the code editor has none of the last 10 years'  
improvements seen in other IDEs. I cringe and curse when I have to use it  
these days to fix something in an old production.

Although it's a dying product in many respects (dwindling plugin  
penetration, community sites being taken down, little support from Adobe),  
it's still a viable option in the casual games space, and for 3D games  
maybe even the best.

I would never recommend anyone to start learning Director from scratch  
(unless they had a specific project that needs it, that they *know* will  
yield a good ROI), but if you're already familiar with it - go ahead. If  
your games are 2D, go with Flash/Flex instead.


Note: for 3D games, it may be worthwhile to look at WPF/.NET 3.0 - you can  
run XBAPs in the browser. Currently Windows only, but the mono team are  
looking into implementing it for other platforms.