Madden in... Director? Wow, haha. I made a sort of Pac-man thing in Flash once, that was complicated enough for me and that was years later when Director was already obsolete.

Ever mess around with mTropolis?

I have no idea what your first and second sentence means. But it looks like it will be wonderful. Post again when its done :)

It was interesting for about five minutes when I watched him, but then rather dull. Ashley wasn't one of life's great conversationalists. He set up a tripod with a little box on top: the laser. Then he put 3 tiny paper targets around the kitchen. The rest of the time he spent on a tablet thing, taking dozens of photos, endlessly tapping in information, occasionally putting a little piece of yellow tape down and pointing the laser spot at it. Sometimes he put little pins on stands down and pointed the laser at them. Mainly he tapped, photographed, and said nothing. It took a long time, nearly two hours. I went and did something else, but I could hear every click and tap. At the end of the day, after he'd gone, he emailed me a detailed plan of the various worktop pieces. Apparently this is accurate to less than a millimetre. One piece will take 4 men to carry. Apparently.

I never even heard of it! Looks like one of those things that could've been great if the industry success cards had been dealt slightly differently.

It got bought out and killed by rival Macromedia (Director).

yeah, who then copped the same treatment themselves from Adobe on a bunch of stuff. So it goes, I suppose, the biggest fish.

Concentration, monopoly, yadda