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Flex 4 & Flash Builder 4 released - 2:14am
Source: Directorforum - News by Martin Schaefer
Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Flex 4 framework and Flash Builder 4.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashbuilder/

And it looks like Adobe have learned their lesson in international pricing.
Diffenrences are much less than before.
Adobe Exec Contact Info - Yesterday
Source: Directorforum - News by mythicwave
I cross posted this on Direct-L, but I think it's appropriate to post here as well...

This may be futile, but it is worth a try, and I'm asking for your help.

I'm at the point where I want to appeal directly to Adobe upper management. I want to do this by adhering to the adage "the squeaky wheel gets the
oil." Believe me, I'm nothing if not aggressive and persistent. I'm very
very tired of the lack of clarity, roadmaps, communication, the slavish
focus on Flash and AIR, etc. My livelihood depends on this. Yes, I can
drop Director and move to Flash or other solutions, but that means a lot of
wasted effort and $$$.

My intention is to start a letter writing campaign starting with the CEO,
CTO, etc. I can also try to get phone conferences and face to face meetings
with them, buttonhole them at conferences, etc. I'm located in Southern
California, and Adobe headquarters is in San Jose, I believe, so I could
make a trip there without too much trouble.

It seems worthless to appeal to Allen Partridge or anyone in India. In
fact, part of my appeal to the execs will be a petition for Allen's
replacement (Allen, I hope you are reading!).

I'd like to collect as many emails, phone #'s of top execs, their
assistants, their blogs, Facebook pages, Twitter addresses, upcoming
conferences, etc. as possible. I'll even take some phone numbers in India,
however worthless. I'd also like to collect some personal narratives,
Director success stories, active and popular Director / Shockwave
applications and websites, etc.

I'm an engineer and programmer, but also a business person and can shmooze
well in social situations. I can be noisy and obnoxious or pleasant
depending on the situation. So, I'm asking for your help. Either some news
is just around the corner about an update, or we'll soon be singing
Director's swan song.

Thanks for reading,

Brian
TeamTanks Game - Mar 20
Source: Directorforum - News by Pete Roobol
In these odd times for shockwave, we have a wee nugget of light I wanted to share with you...

5 days ago we updated our Teamtanks game, a 9 month ball grind of an update :eek:

<the_plug>19 weapons, nine levels, uber charging ageia stunt tanks, destructable armored MUS tank combat</the_plug>

As of last night- 500 concurrents and growing, the growth has been awesome and we've not really started the marketing. We've been making games for over a decade now and even in these -dark times- still get pleasant surprises :)

Of key note we find its still far easier to distribute Shockwave games than Unity (to cover ourselves we do make unity3d games and yes its great), but with only a handfull of the main sites that have currently taken on unity, the others are "waiting to see"...

The old girl still has some mileage in her, shockwave's web momentum is still holding- come on Adobe!

Plugin power
Pete

ps. http://www.gamevial.com/fullscreen2....rmat=shockwave
Adobe can communicate - Mar 12
Source: Directorforum - News by Martin Schaefer
You need yet another good example of how Adobe can communicate with the users,
while you're still wondering why the Director team fails? No problem!

This one is from Tinic Uro, engineer on the Adobe Flash Player. And he provides some
pretty interesting technical details of Flash Player 10.1
Good read, if you need something positive. :)

http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/03/timing-it-right.html
GDC to take off today - Mar 08
Source: Directorforum - News by Martin Schaefer
Game Developer Conference 2010 is about to open doors and what are the important news?

Unity: Unity 3 announced
Director: none