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

[Hal Barwood]

Doesn't Director now support ActionScript?

Jonas Beckeman wrote:

>> 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.

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