Its Director authoring tool had been phased out in 2017. With that in mind, it is not only canceling its Flash but it is also discontinuing Shockwave for Windows. For many years, Adobe team has been working on shutting it down. The reason for its decision to stop this platform is the increasing popularity of HTML5 Canvas and WebGL. “Effective April 9, 2019, Adobe Shockwave will be discontinued and the Shockwave player for Windows will no longer be available for download.” – Adobe

Recently, it posted a message on its official website about the platform’s demise on April 9, 2019. Last month, Adobe started notifying its customers about its plan to discontinue the said multimedia platform. However, you might consider deleting Shockwave from your device. You can still play your favorite browser-based game. Adobe will officially discontinue Shockwave platform. Then, users could view such content in a browser with a Shockwave Player plug-in.īut that era will halt next month. It was a tool to build video games and multimedia apps.ĭevelopers created their content through Adobe Director and published it on the Internet. There was a time when Adobe Shockwave was an important multimedia platform.

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