Whois & Analysis for shockwave.com

Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) is a multimedia platform for building interactive multimedia applications and video games.

Developers originate content using Adobe Director and publish it on the Internet.

Such content can be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed.

Macromind originated the technology; Macromedia developed it further, releasing Shockwave Player in 1995.

Adobe Systems acquired Shockwave in 2005.

Shockwave supports raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo.

Puzzle video games are a genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving.

The types of puzzles can test many problem-solving skills including logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving, and word completion.

The player may have unlimited time or attempts to solve a puzzle, or there may be simple puzzles made difficult by having to complete them in real-time, as in Tetris.

The racing video game genre is the genre of video games, either in the first-person or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, water, air or space vehicles.

They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings.

In general, they can be distributed along a spectrum anywhere between hardcore simulations, and simpler arcade racing games.

Racing games may also fall under the category of sports games.

An online game is a video game that is either partially or primarily played through the Internet or another computer network.

Online games are ubiquitous on modern gaming platforms, including PCs, consoles and mobile devices, and span many genres, including first-person shooters, strategy games and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG).