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The collective body of work produced with Macromedia Director represents some of the most creative, inventive, and experimental games and interactive art of the 1990s. It’s why Theresa Duncan could produce a series of children’s discovery games, or why an artist like Osamu Sato was able to seamlessly transition from digital art to designing a surreal, cosmic exploration of mortality in Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou. It’s the reason why the ’90s computer game scene is filled with unusual Myst-inspired titles from new developers.
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If you wanted to create interactive media art but didn’t know how to program an application for Windows 95 from scratch, you probably used Director. Creating a fast-paced action game with Director was a tall order, but for point-and-click adventure-style games that move between static scenes - the type popularized by breakout CD-ROM titles like The 7th Guest and Myst - Director took out a ton of the work.Īt a time when the barrier to computer game design was still fairly high, Macromedia Director was a lifeline for small and independent developers. Even if you didn’t know much programming, you could use Director to make a presentation, an encyclopedia, or a digital magazine, or most relevant to this post, you could use it to make a game. Then they could link those scenes together, like pages in a book, or rooms in a virtual world. It was a tool with a simple drag-and-drop interface that developers could use to place and manipulate elements like text, buttons, graphics, and sounds.
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Making computer software in the 90s was hard. If there’s a single piece of software that defined the multimedia era, it’s Macromedia Director. Macromedia Director? Why does this matter? There’s a lot of work to be done still, but I wanted to document where it stands right now - why it’s a big deal, how well it works, and what comes next. This month, to celebrate the project’s twentieth anniversary, the ScummVM team released ScummVM 2.5.0, the first version to officially support Macromedia Director games. This is a big deal, so big that it got press coverage, including an article that I spoke with Ars Technica for in August. Earlier this year, ScummVM added experimental support for Macromedia Director, one of the most widely used development tools from the CD-ROM multimedia era. In fact, several game publishers have turned to ScummVM when re-releasing their old games!īut ScummVM is about to get even bigger. The ability to run these games on modern platforms using a free, lightweight, open-source program - without needing to emulate an entire computer operating system - has made ScummVM a boon for video game preservation. ScummVM now supports over 200 games, including other adventure game engines, like Sierra On-Line’s Adventure Game Interpreter individual titles like The 7th Guest and even unrelated vintage software like the Living Books interactive children’s book series by Brøderbund. Since then, ScummVM has broadened considerably in scope. Back when ScummVM was first under development twenty years ago (!), it was meant for games created with the SCUMM engine, a toolset by the developer LucasArts that powered their famous adventure games like The Secret of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and Day of the Tentacle.
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It’s a long-running project that “reimplements” old games, reconstructing the game code so they can be played on other platforms. In terms of tools for running old software, ScummVM is in a class of its own.
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