[casual_games] Macromedia Director...

[Margaret Wallace]

Director seems to work ok for certain kinds of games (e.g., certain puzzle
games) but not for games where you need lots of action or performance or
super-fancy particle effects. I'd imagine there are also probably a bunch of
compatability issues with Vista that have popped up with Director-based
games.

Using Director makes it infinitely easier to create a web version of your
game -- but for anything else (such as porting to XBLA), you'll have to
re-code from scratch.

Even though I come from a Director background, I will probably not use it
for future games. If a newer version of Director comes out that fixes
certain problems and is updated to current standards of expected game
performace, I'll consider using Director again but not for the short-term.


On 2/11/07, T. R. <vo_list at hotmail.com> wrote:

>

> Thanks, all, for your advice.

>

> Rob, I've used, I think, 5 or 6 at the latest, so that was a long time

> ago.

> How has the product advanced, since then, specifically in terms of game

> development?

>

> Cheers,

>

> Tim

>

> >IMHO, Director is extremely well suited for casual game development - and

> >yes, you do get the added benefits of Desktop/Web/Mac/Win versions with

> >relatively little extra dev time. We do just about all of our titles in

> >Director. What was the last version you worked with?

> >

> >r o b

> >

> >

> >| Robert Gordon

> >| The Article 19 Group Inc.

> >| phone: 514.938.8512

> >| email: rob at article19.com

> >| http://www.article19.com

> >

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