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Director Game Development Survey - Results

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Productivity Features for Director in Game Development

The following results are based on a sample group of 191 people answering the following question: What additional features / enhancements do you see as necessary to improve your productivity in creating games?

The responses to this question were highly varied but, the clear favourite is the 3D engine upgrade. I have given multiple tables to compare the responses in smaller feature specific groupings. Click on the hyperlinked features to get a more detailed coverage explanation of what this request covers (these link to user comments on that feature set). Visit the Top Feature Requests page for a more detailed analysis of wish features.

Top Answers

Productivity Feature Requests - All  
3D Engine upgrade 28
Better script editor / Collapsible code / Autocomplete 16
3D Enhancements 15
Havok support / Physics engine / Collision 11
3D Ease of use features (incl. 3DPI) 10
Movieclip / LDM update 9
External scripting features 9
Better exporters for W3D 8
Better text handling / text engine 7
3D authoring 7
Better OOP support (like AS3) / AS3 support / Better language 7
Shockwave install / marketing 6
Unicode support 6
Flash integration improvements 6
Documentation / support 5
Better / improved / decent IDE 5
OS specific controls / Native UI controls / standard controls 5
Version control system integration 5
3D control 5
3DS Max - better integration / workflow between two / better exporter 5
Bug fixes 4
Multi-User Server return 4
3D map / shader extended support 4
3D - better lighting / shadows 4
Multiple undos (incl. "just in the script window would be enough!"). 3
Code
Better script editor 9
External scripting features 9
Autocomplete lingo 4
Better OOP support (like AS3) / AS3 support 4
Better language 3
Collapsible code (handlers, loops) 3
Faster Imaging Lingo 3
Javascript syntax coloring & auto formatting 3
Faster code execution 2
3D  
3D engine upgrade 28
3D enhancements 15
3D Ease of use features (incl. 3DPI) 10
Better exporters for W3D 8
3D authoring 7
3D control 5
3DS Max - better integration / workflow between two / better exporter 5
3D map / shader extended support 4
Better lighting, shadows 4
3D fix 2
Miscellaneous  
Eclipse support 3
Open multiple projects at once 3
Stable/modular runtime / stability / robust Director 3
Better UI 3
Print features 2
Photoshop - better integration 2
Vector graphics support improvements 2
Quicktime integration improvements 2
Intellisence 2
Faster updates! 2
Built in support for fullscreen 2
Better Mouse / Keyboard (multiKeys) / Game Pad / Joystick handling, 2
Games engine 2
Hardware acceleration of 2D sprites 2
Up to date Flash Xtra / Flash 9 Xtra 2
Universal Binary support 2

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