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Director Game Development Survey - Results

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Top Feature Requests for Director

The following results are based on a sample group of 227 people asking for their top 5 feature requests for Director 11 in the order of priority. Since the features where left completely up to each person to decide, there was an enormous range put forward, covering very specific things to broader feature sets. I have grouped them as best as possible into 72 categories. Some of the broader ones (like the 3D general update) may overlap with others. A number of feature requests were not included in the results below simply because they were too general, too vague or just not clear in any way.

The results were weighted with feature 1 getting a score of 5, feature 2 a score of 4, down to feature 5 with a score of 1. The results were then brought down to a weighted percentage to evaluate each feature's order of priority.

Of the people surveyed, some did not fill in all 5 feature requests. The results are based on the following responses:
Feature 1: 213, Feature 2: 204 , Feature 3: 188, Feature 4: 154, Feature 5: 128

You can see the expanded comments / feature requests of each grouping by clicking this link. Alternatively, you can click each feature (that is hyperlinked below) to go to that grouping.

Click here to see the results in a bar graph format.

As seen below, it's clear that 3D is the favourite. Of all the respondents, almost 60% said they would like either a General 3D Update or a 3D Engine Update as one of their feature requests. Many others requested specific 3D features. Unicode had a significant response with 22% of people asking for it.

Feature Request weighted % % of people
01 3D Engine Update 9.70 36.15
02 3D General Updates & Bug Fix 5.85 23.00
03 Unicode Support 5.32 22.07
04 Audio Updates / More Features / 3D Sound 3.38 16.43
05 Language / OOP Update / Actionscript 3 Support (or equivalent) 3.32 17.37
06 Shockwave Install Improvements & Marketing 3.19 13.15
07 Text Member / Handling / Engine Update 3.13 13.62
08 Movieclip / LDM Update 2.94 12.68
09 Native UI Controls 2.79 12.68
10 3D Texture / Shader (incl. Flash & Video) 2.69 12.21
11 Flash Integration Improvement / Faster Update 2.57 11.27
12 3D Better Lighting / Shadows / Stencil buffer 2.47 11.27
13 New OS Support (Mac Intel / Vista / Linux) 2.44 9.86
14 Script Editor / Split Window / Collapsible Scripts / Autocomplete 2.32 10.80
15 3D Specialised 2.07 7.98
16 3D Ease of use features (incl. 3DPI) 1.91 8.92
17 Multi-User Server Return & Update 1.75 9.39
18 Havok / Physics Engine 1.69 7.98
19 HTML / CSS / Text Members with Images 1.69 7.04
20 Bugs Fix (esp. long standing) 1.47 7.04
21 Imaging Lingo Update 1.35 7.98
22 Universal Binary 1.28 4.69
23 Multiple Undo Levels 1.13 5.16
24 New Media Support (incl. FLV) 1.03 5.16
25 Printing 0.94 5.63
26 Adobe Product Integration - Photoshop / Illustrator / Premiere 0.91 5.63
27 Speed Improvements 0.91 4.69
28 OS Access / Integration (Buddy API functionality) 0.85 3.76
29 3D Additive Blending 0.81 2.82
30 Other (Specialised) 0.78 5.63
31 Paint Window Update 0.75 3.76
32 Vector Graphic Support / Enhancement 0.75 4.23
33 Database Support 0.69

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34 3D Z Ordering Bug Fix 0.66 2.82
35 Code Execution Speed Improvement 0.66 3.29
36 File Management / Teamwork Features ( incl. multiple movies open) 0.66 3.29
37 Debugging Improvement 0.56 3.29
38 Publishing / Projector Updates 0.56 2.82
39 3D Anti-aliasing 0.53 2.35
40 3D Authoring / Saving 0.53 2.82
41 Full Screen Support 0.53 2.82
42 Version control 0.53 2.82
43 QT improvements 0.50 2.82
44 Adobe Support / Commitment / Marketing 0.47 3.29
45 Documentation / Help Improvement 0.47 2.82
46 XML Improvement 0.47 2.35
47 3D Collision Improvement 0.44 1.88
48 PDF Integration 0.44 2.35
49 Protected Assets / Scripts 0.44 2.35
50 UI Update 0.44 2.35
51 DVD Video Creation 0.41 1.88
52 External Device Support (incl. Joystick) 0.41 2.82
53 Sprite / Score Update 0.41 2.35
54 Video Improvements 0.41 1.41
55 2D Hardware Acceleration 0.38 1.88
56 3D Applications Compatibility 0.38 1.88
57 Web Integration Improvements 0.38 2.35
58 Game Console / PSP / Xbox Publishing 0.34 1.88
59 FTP Support 0.31 1.41
60 Net Lingo - Secure / Improve 0.31 1.41
61 3D Reflection 0.28 0.94
62 DVD Xtra Improvement 0.28 2.35
63 Mouse / Cursor Control / Wheel Support 0.28 1.88
64 Multi Processor Mac Support 0.28 0.94
65 Xcode Support 0.22 1.41
66 External Script Support 0.19 0.94
67 IDE Improvement 0.19 0.94
68 V-sync support 0.19 0.94
69 3D Particle engine 0.16 1.88
70 Additional Platforms Support (PDA / Mobile Phones) 0.13 1.41
71 Dynamic Sprite Support 0.13 0.94
72 Flash Dependence* 0.13 0.94

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