[casual_games] Macromedia Director...

Brad Condran bcondran at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 13 09:05:56 EST 2007

Word is that they are supposed to be releasing a new version of Director in
the 1st half of 2007. From what I've read it seems like they are planning on
targeting game developers. Perhaps that will breath new life into it.


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>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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