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

[E. D. Bass]

Has anyone on this list TOUCHED director, in the last 3-4 years? I mean 
serious "you can get arrested for that kind of probing in Florida" kind 
of touching?

The last update I've actually laid my hands on was 8, and It wasn't that 
wondrous and update. I think Director is still predominantly Lingo, but 
it can use handlers created in Flash, that utilize Actionscript.

I'll let the bigger brain in the bunch tell me if I'm full of sweet 
sweet baloney

Hal Barwood wrote:

> 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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