https://obscuritory.com/essay/macromedia-director -in-scummvm/
https://www.scummvm.org/news/20210817/

"Earlier this year, ScummVM added experimental support for Macromedia Director, one of the most widely used development tools from the CD-ROM multimedia era."

What is Director?
https://macromedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macromedia_Dir ector
>applications built on a movie metaphor, with the user as the "director" of the movie
>Since Version 8, Director also natively incorporates Flash animation files.
Kinda neat. Director is older than flash, first released as VideoWorks in 1985.

https://macromedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macromedia_Dir ector_8
>updated features included Flash 5 integration
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/old-software/macr omedia-flash/macromedia-flash-5-0
If ScummVM wants to eventually be able to play those Director games flawlessly it sounds like it must be able to play flash as well, which could mean that some day ScummVM might be used as a flash player. Maybe? Perhaps they will just use Adobe's flash plugin and not support opening swf files directly.