If you have a half hour (or so) to take part in a very detailed survey about Director to help develop the Director roadmap then this is your lucky day. From the survey page:
“This survey attempts to take a snapshot of the Director userbase and look ahead to what would make for a stronger Director product.
The survey goes beyond a feature wish list. It investigates how features translate into real projects.
Estimated time required for survey: 25 – 45 minutes
This is the most detailed Director survey in history. The amount of time required will depend on how many feature categories you choose to focus on and how many examples you provide. I STRONGLY encourage you download the PDF version of the survey to review the questions and features covered. Once you have put your thoughts together, you can then enter your answers online. The PDF also contains web links in the Language Improvements question (section 3, question 24), which could also be explored before answering the question.”
September 9th, 2008
Sorry for the very late notice on this, but the fourth live online meeting (generously put together by Martin Schaefer) will be starting shortly.
More information can be found here.
See you there.
September 2nd, 2008
A new case study has been posted on Adobe.com that shows how some amazing 3D games are getting created by Mockworld. Very cool.
Be sure to check out the case study.
August 21st, 2008
From sources (Allen) on mailing lists it looks like a “hotfix” for Director 11 will be released in October. It will address the following issues:
- Kerning
- Justification
- 1536 px sprite width problem
- Leopard Font Crashes – Japanese Fonts and a few English Fonts families
- Fuzzy projector icon
- Text & Font Xtra Changes
- Aegia Physics issues (Restitution and Friction, Spinning issue when ball is shot at a different angle)
- External linked Scripts getting deleted when file has MAC line ending characters.
August 18th, 2008
I noticed a new build of Shockwave for Mac was released today. Wonder what is new?
Guess I’ll be playing with it tomorrow to see if anything broke 🙂
Update: Seems as if the Windows version has also been updated.
August 6th, 2008
Interested in chatting with many other Director users? The next live online meeting will be happening next week, and the main focus is Shockwave 3D. At the last meeting there were about 50 developers online (along with a few people from Adobe). More information can be found here. See you there.
We invite you to the 3. Director Live Online Meeting, which will take place on Tuesday, July 15th @ 10am EDT.
The topic(s) will be:
* Future of Shockwave3D
* Q&A and community chat
There will be quite a few guys from Adobe attending such as Allen, Rajnish, Vivek, Krishnan, and potentially some more from the Shockwave3D team.
The meeting room will be open from 1 hour before the official start and will remain open for discussion 1 hour after the end of the meeting.
The meeting URL:
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/directorforum
Note:
If you want to talk to the community during the meeting, make sure you have a microphone and a headset to avoid echo and allow the Flash plugin to access your microphone when prompted.
If you want to present (screen-share) during the meeting you will need to install the Adobe Connect Plugin when prompted to do so.
You don’t need to speak or share your screen though. The meeting will have a text chat to communicate.
Time Zones:
7:00am – Los Angeles
10:00am – New York
3:00pm – London
4:00pm – Berlin
7:30pm – India
0:00am – Sydney (Tue->Wed night)
Click here for other time zones.
This announcement on Directorforum:
http://www.directorforum.com/showthread.php?t=1672
Cheers,
Martin
July 11th, 2008
For you Director users out there be sure to keep an hour free tomorrow for the 2nd online meeting related to the future of Director.
According to Macromartin, the organizer, the meeting will be held for 1 hour to discuss:
1. The current state of Director
2. The future of Director
3. Introducing the public Director Feature Request System & Poll
4. Q&A and community chat
‘The future of Director’ is my most concern. But I doubt that the answer will be a negative one since participants are all Director users.
For more information and the location of the online meeting read this post on K-Director.
I’ll be there!
June 23rd, 2008
On Direct-L it was announced that an updated version of the PRegEx Xtra for Director 11 will be release in the next few weeks. Great news!
PRegEx is a free, open source, Xtra that brings the power of Perl regular expressions and list handling to Lingo.
June 13th, 2008
Do you happen to know of any Director bugs? Be sure to visit The Director Community Bugbase and report them if they aren’t already in the list. Even Adobe is keeping an eye on this list!
For many long-time Director Developers, the time between Director releases can be frustrating. Bugs crop up. Is it you? Is it Director?
The Director Community Bugbase is designed to help you find answers. Having a problem? Search the bugbase to see if sombody’s run across it before. Think you’ve found a bug? Enter it, and save somebody else the frustration you’re having.
The Director Community Bugbase is generously hosted and maintained by Creative Perspectives, Inc. one of the industry’s premier developers of multimedia applications.
June 12th, 2008
Last year Michigan State U (where I got my PhD) started a Master’s program for Serious Game Design. I wish they’d had that back when I was there!
This fall they will be holding the Meaningful Play 2008 Conference.
Whether designed to entertain or for more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, and behavior.
Meaningful Play 2008 is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores the potential of games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference includes thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games.
Director 11 is being marketed towards the serious game community and it just so happens that there is a competition for serious games at the conference. If you have a serious game ready (or even an idea or something under development) you may want to read a bit more in their call for games.
The submission deadline isn’t until August 15, 2008, so get busy. Sounds like a great contest for something done in Director. 🙂
If you make it there, be sure to stop by the cyclotron…and catch a football game.
May 18th, 2008
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