Its version has since been tied to Director's, thus there were no Shockwave 2–4 releases. Version 1.0 of Shockwave was released independent of Director 4 and its development schedule has coincided with the release of Director since version 5. The Shockwave player was originally developed for the Netscape browser by Macromedia Director team members Harry Chesley, John Newlin, Sarah Allen, and Ken Day, influenced by a previous plug-in that Macromedia had created for Microsoft's Blackbird. However, Flash Player cannot display Shockwave content, and Shockwave Player cannot display Flash content. By 2015, Flash Player became a suitable alternative to Shockwave Player, with its 3D rendering capabilities and object-oriented programming language.

Īs of 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. Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Shockwave, and published on websites such as Miniclip and. Shockwave Player supported raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, digital audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo. Shockwave Player ran DCR files published by the Director environment. It was first developed by Macromedia, and released in 1995 and was later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. Such content could be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed. Content was developed with Macromedia Director and published on the Internet. Macromedia Shockwave Player (also known as Shockwave for Director and later Adobe Shockwave Player), was a freeware plug-in for viewing multimedia and video games in web pages, content created on the Macromedia Shockwave platform.

Logo for Shockwave content authored with Macromedia Director from 1995 to 1997.

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