RE: FLASH: Gimme a break, J.D.

[paul wehner]

I've not been following the thread, however I've just been married and

become a

step dad to two boys 10 and 7. They absolutely love shockwave.com. It is

safe entertainment

for children and for that alone the site is valuable.

As I say I've not been following this discussion but could it be that

shockwave.com

has many little shockwave games because they are little, easily

distributable, and low bandwidth?

Is it possible that the artistic/educational/corporate content are heavily

restricted by the people

that bought the end product of developers in the first place?

Is their an alternative site with such content?-I'd really like the check it

out.

Not trying to enflame the discussion here just genuinely inquisitive.

Thanks,

Paul



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John Dowdell wrote:


> Distilled implicit questions and replies follow:

>

> ((Q)  If someone advises Mac users to avoid Shockwave 7.02, do they "know

> what they're talking about"?

> (A)  They're likely vulnerable to drawing conclusions on slight

evidence...

>

>


Now hold on there, JD!


The Shockwave Remote is a huge issue over on Direct-L where the developers

hang out. Though Warren has been leading the charge there is a growing

consensus over there the whole thing is seriously flawed. Unfortunately, the

number of developers compared to the number of people steered to the site is

rather small so the numbers are skewed in favour of the Mothership.


What really burns my butt is the fact Mothership has actively positioned

Shockwave as "entertainment". I am a bit disturbed that my role as a content

developer has been trivialized by Macromedia. Where's the educational

content?

The artistic content? The corporate content? You know, the stuff I produce

every day. Yet go to the Shockwave site and you see South Park, games and

other fluff getting the big play.


>From this you could assume that great work from Matinee, New Beetle, Remedi,

David Gary and so on is nothing more than content to amuse the masses at

MM's

Roman Circus?


It strikes me as being the height of arrogance or good old Yankee stupidity

to

trivialize the role of the very people upon which the success of

Shockwave.com

is based.


Then again millions of downloads does create quite a valuable mailing list,

so

what if a few hundred developers are screaming. Just look at those numbers,

will ya?




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