RE: STC is broken

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Flash isn't "on the fringe." I've used Flash for technical
documentation, and so have plenty of other Whirlers. That doesn't mean
that everyone who uses Flash is creating technical documentation.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hailey
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:51 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: STC is broken
> 
> I've never interviewed game developers, but I'm pretty sure 
> that their resumes don't - and won't - be titled, "Technical 
> Communicator."
> 
> Many of the new instructional applications (especially 
> simulations) are done with game engines. Although Flash is 
> generally seen as an animation software, if you rightclick 
> most any game on the Internet, you will see that it was 
> programmed in Flash.  On the other hand, I use the same 
> (game) programming to produce physics and engineering 
> simulations. See 
> http://imrl.usu.edu/NingProject/module05.html In one project, 
> I produced 80 hours of step-by-step video and animated 
> instructions on how to pack a nuclear weapons parachute . . . 
> and my resume is titled "Technical Communicator."
> 
> That's why I say you need to know what's going on on the 
> fringes of the profession. Eventually much of what is 
> happening there will be a part of the main stream.  Game 
> development technologies will be an important part of 
> instruction one day.
> 

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