Comments on: 3d canvas in browser on its way

By: chewing pixels » “Only 3.3% of Nintendo Wii Games Turn a Profit”

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:09:35 +0000

[...] these figures coincides with the tone of this year’s Game Developer’s Conference which, according to industry prophet Raph Koster, reflected a concensus amongst attendees that “digital distribution models, UGC, playing in a [...]

By: Ola Fosheim Grøstad

Ola Fosheim Grøstad — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:02:14 +0000

Next-gen 3D is real-time raytracing with Intel Larrabee.

@damijin: cool. I also do 3D in flash, is your engine for Flash 9 or Flash 10?

By: len

len — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:34:56 +0000

As a follow on to my comment above, I note in Caroline McCarthy’s column at CNet the announcement that MySpace will be integrating Silverlight giving MySpace developers access to Adobe Flash.

Integration into the social networks faster may be more desirable than another layer in HTML at this point.

By: DESIGNER NOTES » Blog Archive » Two Thoughts on GDC 2009

DESIGNER NOTES » Blog Archive » Two Thoughts on GDC 2009 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:15:53 +0000

[...] web-based gaming, social networks, etc.) are, at least from the conference’s perspective, old news now. Finally, an actual, profitable indie market is no longer a theoretical concept to be taken on [...]

By: MrBloodworth

MrBloodworth — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:18:12 +0000

Trucegore = MrBloodworth.

By: Trucegore

Trucegore — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:17:14 +0000

Its a heavily modified version of Sandy.

By: Trucegore

Trucegore — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:15:59 +0000

Bleh, Javascript.

By: Independent Creator » Blog Archive » What? GDC Happened?

Independent Creator » Blog Archive » What? GDC Happened? — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:17:03 +0000

[...] Koster notices that it’s all going digital distribution, casual, mobile, in-browser, everywhere away from [...]

By: Raph

Raph — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:14:16 +0000

That looks nice, damijin! Which engine did you use?

By: damijin

damijin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:02:48 +0000

My next Flash game is a 3d scrolling shooter, you can see a teaser from the alpha here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM4MBpCSiNo

I’m hoping it’ll be a push toward more established 3d in Flash. We’ve all seen a lot of tech demos and the possibilities, but no strong game developers have gotten behind it yet. I aim to change that. We’ll see how it goes!