Editing Adobe Shockwave (section)

{{Short description|Multimedia platform}}
{{About|the Shockwave multimedia platform|the player|Adobe Shockwave Player|the application authoring platform|Adobe Director|"Shockwave Flash"|Adobe Flash Player|the [[Adobe Flash]] [[file format]] sometimes referred to as "Shockwave Flash"|SWF}}
{{distinguish|Shockwave.com}}
{{Infobox software platform
| name        = Adobe Shockwave
| icon        = Shockwave.svg
| image       = 
| caption     = 
| developer   = [[Adobe Inc.]], [[Macromedia]], [[MacroMind]]
| target      = [[Web browser]]s, [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS]]
| editor      = [[Adobe Director]]
| runtime     = [[Adobe Shockwave Player|Shockwave Player]]
| format      = DIR, DCR, DXR
| language    = [[Lingo (programming language)|Lingo]]
| application = [[Browser games]], [[Desktop application|desktop app]]s, [[video games]]
| status      = Discontinued on April 9, 2019
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]<ref>[https://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/pdfs/Reader_Player_AIR_WWEULA-Combined-20080204_1313.pdf##page=205 Adobe Software License Agreement]. Retrieved November 10, 2011.</ref>
}}

'''Adobe Shockwave''' (formerly '''Macromedia Shockwave''' and '''MacroMind Shockwave''') is<!--DO NOT change to "was". MOS:TENSE says that articles on discontinued products should be written in present tense.--> a [[end-of-life (product)|discontinued]] [[multimedia]] [[platform (computing)|platform]] for building interactive multimedia applications and [[video games]]. Developers originate content using [[Adobe Director]] and publish it on the Internet. Such content could be viewed in a [[web browser]] on any computer with the [[Adobe Shockwave Player|Shockwave Player]] plug-in installed. [[MacroMind]] originated the technology; [[Macromedia]] acquired MacroMind and developed it further, releasing Shockwave Player in 1995. [[Adobe Inc.|Adobe]] then acquired Shockwave with Macromedia in 2005.<ref>
{{cite journal|last=Elia|first=Eric|title=Macromedia unveils Shockwave and Director 5|journal=Newmedia|url=http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Computers-and-office-automation-industries/Macromedia-unveils-Shockwave-and-Director-5-Director-5-MOA-better-Xtras.html|access-date=September 23, 2010|year=1996|publisher=HyperMedia Communications|issn=1060-7188}}</ref> Shockwave supports [[raster graphics]], basic [[vector graphics]], [[3D graphics]], [[Digital audio|audio]], and an embedded scripting language called [[Lingo (programming language)|Lingo]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=R3d6H9c-x3wC Macromedia Shockwave for Director User's Guide, Volume 1], New Riders Pub., 01-Jan-1996</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8nAQ6l1TnGgC Macromedia Shockwave for Director, Volume 1], Hayden Books, 1996</ref>

During the 1990s, Shockwave was a common format for CD-ROM projectors, kiosk presentations, and interactive video games, and dominated in interactive multimedia.<ref name="HartGeller2008">{{cite book|author1=Kelly Hart|author2=Mitch Geller|title=New Perspectives on Dreamweaver CS3, Comprehensive|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Z2WhCwJAqMC&pg=PA429|year=2008|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn= 978-1-4239-2531-6|page= 429}}</ref> Various [[graphic adventure game]]s were developed with Shockwave then, including ''[[The Journeyman Project]]'', ''[[Total Distortion]]'', ''[[Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou]]'', [[Mia's Language Adventure: The Kidnap Caper|''Mia's Language Adventure'']], [[Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat|''Mia's Science Adventure'']], and the ''[[Didi & Ditto]]'' series. [[Video game developer]]s developed hundreds of free online video games using Shockwave, publishing them on websites such as [[Miniclip]] and Shockwave.com.

In July 2011, a survey found that Flash Player had 99% market penetration in desktop browsers in "mature markets" (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand), while Shockwave Player claimed only 41% in these markets.<ref name="Adobe">{{cite web|title=Flash content reaches 99% of Internet viewers|url=http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/|publisher=Adobe|access-date=2014-08-07|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002003244/http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/|archive-date= October 2, 2011}}</ref> [[Adobe Flash]] and [[Adobe AIR]] are alternatives to Shockwave, with its [[Stage3D|3D rendering capabilities]], [[ActionScript|object-oriented programming language]], and capacity to run as a [[executable file|native executable]] on multiple platforms.<ref name="pcmag11">[http://www.pcpro.co.uk/adobe/27164/adobe-director-11-review Adobe Director 11 review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528074705/http://www.pcpro.co.uk/adobe/27164/adobe-director-11-review |date=2015-05-28 }}, Page 2, KEVIN PARTNER, 1 May 2008, PCPro Magazine, ''"Adobe's AIR technology makes it possible to deploy Flash as a desktop application"''</ref>

In February 2019, Adobe announced that Adobe Shockwave, including the Shockwave Player, would be discontinued effective April 9, 2019.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://helpx.adobe.com/shockwave/shockwave-end-of-life-faq.html|title=End of Life (EOL) for Adobe Shockwave|website=helpx.adobe.com|access-date=2019-12-23}}</ref>