Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director, MacroMind Director, and MacroMind VideoWorks) was a multimedia application authoring platform created by
Macromedia
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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.
Various
graphic adventure game
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s 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
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, 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
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