Adobe Director

Adobe Director
Original author(s)MacroMind
Developer(s)Adobe Inc.
Final release
12 / February 11, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-02-11)
Operating systemWindows and OS X
TypeComputer animation
LicenseTrialware
Websitewww.adobe.com/products/director.html Edit this on Wikidata

Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director, MacroMind Director, and MacroMind VideoWorks) was a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia and managed by Adobe Systems until its discontinuation.

Director was the primary editor on the Adobe Shockwave platform, which dominated the interactive multimedia product space during the 1990s.[1] Various graphic adventure games were developed with Director during the 1990s, including Living Books, The Journeyman Project, Total Distortion, Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou, Mia's Language Adventure, Mia's Science Adventure, and the Didi & Ditto series. Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Lingo, and published on websites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com.

Director published DCR files that were played using the Adobe Shockwave Player, in addition to compiling native executables for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Director allowed users to build applications on a movie metaphor, with the user as the "director" of the movie. Originally designed for creating animation sequences, the addition of a scripting language called Lingo made it a popular choice for creating CD-ROMs, standalone kiosks and internet video games content during the 1990s.

On January 27, 2017, Adobe announced that it was discontinuing Director. Sales of Director ceased on February 1, 2017; ongoing updates and support for the software ended on March 14, 2017.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Kelly Hart; Mitch Geller (2008). New Perspectives on Dreamweaver CS3, Comprehensive. Cengage Learning. p. 429. ISBN 978-1-4239-2531-6.
  2. ^ "The Future of Adobe Contribute, Director and Shockwave - Adobe Blog". adobe.com. 27 January 2017. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Adobe will stop selling Contribute and Director on February 1, drop Shockwave for Mac support on March 14". venturebeat.com. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  4. ^ "End of Life (EOL) for Adobe Shockwave". helpx.adobe.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.