Macromedia Shockwave
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| Developer(s) | Adobe Systems, Macromedia, MacroMind |
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| Target platform(s) | Web browsers, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Editor software | Adobe Director |
| Player software | Shockwave Player |
| Format(s) | DIR, DCR, DXR |
| Programming language(s) | Lingo |
| Application(s) | Browser games, Desktop apps, Video games |
| Status | Active |
| License | Proprietary |
Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) is a multimedia platform for building interactive multimedia applications and video games. Developers originate content using Adobe Director and publish it on the Internet. Such content can be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed. Macromind originated the technology; Macromedia developed it further, releasing Shockwave Player in 1995. Adobe Systems acquired Shockwave in 2005. Shockwave supports raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo.
Shockwave is a common format for CD-ROM projectors, kiosk presentations, and interactive video games, and dominated in interactive multimedia during the 1990s. Various graphic adventure games were developed with Shockwave during the 1990s, including The Journeyman Project, Total Distortion, Mia's Language Adventure, Mia's Science Adventure, and the Didi & Ditto series. Video-game writers developed hundreds of free online video-games using Shockwave, publishing them on websites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com.
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