[casual_games] Macromedia Director...

[E. D. Bass]

Early on in my interactive media career, I loved Director. It had the 
level of strength that, someone like me
Who didn't have the time to devote to learning C/C++, needed. It did 
great things, and the community around
it was robust and very knowledgeable.

Now that Flash has basically taken over it's space for interactive web 
content, it seems a bit long in the tooth.
I wonder if it won't be phased out altogether or, if by some stroke of 
mercy or madness, Adobe finds a way to
combine both Flash and Director in to one package... I wonder if 
director will just fade in to a very illustrious history.

Margaret Wallace wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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

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