The Director Podcast Episode #9, March 22nd, 2006

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Episode 9 -- March 22nd, 2006

The Director Podcast
Magicgate Software has been specializing in Adobe Director (previously Macromedia Director) for over 10 years now. Come listen to programming techniques, information about Xtras (Macromedia Director's plugin library) and interviews with industry professionals. A must for any Director developer out there! We encourage you to send us your feedback and topic ideas. You can do this by emailing us at HERE, using our form below or by calling our....
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This Week's Shownotes:
Director Podcast Episode Nine, March 22nd, 2006

ALPHA
Greetings, Who I am, Website location
Art Institute Portfolio Show

News:
Microsoft delaying Vista until January 2007

Few interesting things: Tom’s blog about a very cool 3d interactive shockwave game called Phosphor by Nick Kang…. Awesome job! However, I would like to debate the issue of making Director into a “game development” platform. Making money in this area is very tough and competitive.
WEB LINK

Max in Vegas October 22-26… Darrel Plant Blog
WEB LINK

This Month's Winner
will receive their choice of:


FireFly Lite Xtra	Word Wrangler Xtra

Compliments of
MediaMacros

Contest: Most Unique application written with Director
Best score will win and be highlighted here on the Director Podcast
Prize: Word Wrangler or FireFly Lite Xtra compliments of MediaMacros.net
Criteria: 1-10
Uniqueness
Reliability - crashes
Speed
Cosmetic / Gui Interface - Not Related
Usability, ease of use, confusion factor, easy to navigate, makes sense to end user.

Does not matter platform.

Also can send us file via link from your server... just don't send us an email attachment.

This Week’s Entries:
Marcel Blum, Soundplant.org, Low Latency Software Sampler
Jeff Johnston, Tommy Side Scroll Game
Daniel Nelson from Blue Jade Creative with Implications Wheel Software

Resource Software Update

Listener Feedback:
GTR from webforms
Dan from Australia
Hardin Gray
Charles Parcell
Paul Crumrine
Nik Crosina from the UK
W3dTollbar Link
Cullen
Marc Sylvester
Audio Comment from Mark
MACROMEDIA BOOK SOURCES

Closing Remarks, request feedback

Contact Info, director@magicgate.com, 954-762-7962, http://www.magicgate.com/podcast/

Don’t forget our other podcast, The Kiosk Podcast.

Thank You Listeners!

What to expect next: Contest reminder… Ebay reminder, Next episode will be the Impressario episode followed by an interview with Gary Rosenzweig and then the guys over at Cxtras… and more! Tune in again next week to the Director Podcast where we talk about the software we all love to use.

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