Adobe director is officially cut i guess. I didn’t know it was still a thing. Is there anything it did currently that other tools dont?

It was a jack of all trades. It produced web content through the shockwave player, was extremely popular for interactive CDs, and had a strong presence in kiosks and installation art with its ability to easily interact with hardware. You could embed pictures, audio, videos, flash content, 3d conten…

Just like flash on the web, flash started to replace director there too, especially when flash got good with video (a lot of kiosks use video). But flash also had memory problems which could cause trouble for long-running kiosks to crash. Times square ran flash for one of those large video screen…

Some of my favorite games back-in-the-day were created in Director! I am sad to see this, but definitely not surprised. :frowning:

That Times Square picture is hilarious, sorry. [image] senocular: interactive CDs, and had a strong presence in kiosks Those were the days! I still have the pay stub for a 116 hour work week for a corporate kiosk pitch. We got the job and I eventually got sleep. Now all I have is old hard d…

Adobe director is discontinued

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tbo February 2, 2017, 5:29pm 3

Interesting, i always knew there was a large portion of flashy stuff on some kiosks, but i guess i just assumed it was all flash swfs

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