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Shockwave Player was released with Director 4.0 around 1995, and branded Shockwave Player 1.0. Its versioning has since been tied to Director's versioning, skipping versions 2 to 4. Shockwave was now a two-part system, a graphics and animation editor known as Macromedia Director, and a player known as Macromedia Shockwave Player.
Shockwave Player supported raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Shockwave, and published on websites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com. [ 5 ]
Shockwave.com, or Shockwave, is an online and offline video games distributor and game portal. It is owned by Shockwave LLC, based in Los Angeles, California , United States . [ 3 ] It was launched by Macromedia on August 2, 1999, to promote the company's Shockwave and Flash players, both used on the website.
The 3D features were quite advanced for the time, unusual for an authoring environment. The 3D capability includes the ability to create geometry on the fly from code, hardware accelerated model display, and advanced lighting features. It also supports vector graphics and 3D interactivity through a Shockwave 3D file object.
The term "SWF" originated as an abbreviation for ShockWave Flash. [8] This usage was changed to the backronym Small Web Format to eliminate confusion with a different technology, Shockwave, from which SWF derived. [9] [10] There is no official resolution to the initialism "SWF" by Adobe. [11] Adobe declared its Flash player EOL on December 31 ...
As the Internet moved from a university research medium to a commercial network, Macromedia began working to web-enable its existing tools and develop new products. In 1995, it introduced Shockwave Player, a free Director plugin for Netscape Navigator to display interactive content on the web. [7]
Netbabyworld created around 20 games from 1999–2003, initially through Macromedia Shockwave, then later moving to their own proprietary PlayCom engine. As of 2023, Netbabyworld.com is still online and serving Shockwave-based games. The games are largely non-functional, given that Shockwave Player was discontinued in 2019. [2]
Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) [10] is a discontinued [note 1] computer program for viewing multimedia content, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video content created on the Adobe Flash platform.