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Awesome: Flash MMOGs coming
Yahoo News: New game engine framework allowing for development of real time Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) and applications via the Flash platform. The founders of Influxis and Red5Server announced today the PaperWorld3D source code is now open to the public. PaperWorld, which leverages open source projects PaperVision3D and Red5, allows for rapid creation of MMOG 3D environments deployable over the Adobe Flash Player 9.
“We are very excited to see this new technology released to the Flash industry,” said Richard Blakely, CEO of Influxis. “PaperWorld3D gives Flash developers the ability to easily create multi-user 3D environments, and considering that this is a LGPL open source project, there is really no limit to where this will go.” Richard also stated that he expects to see new forms of “multi-user 3D advertising” and new business opportunities built around “virtual economies.”
For several months developers all over the Web have admired the awesome first demo of Papervision3D technology. We have described the power of the Red5 platform a few months ago and installed a server. The combination of the two technologies and the ubiquity of the Flash browser plugin will permit, if not “Flash MMOGs”, moderately multiuser virtual worlds that can be embedded in any website and used, for example, for customer support. There are at least three other technologies that permit deploying light browser-based multiuser VR world: Unity3D, recent developments in X3D, and Transmutable‘s Ogoglio technology. All four technologies are worth watching carefully -actually the last three can do now what Flash MMOG technology will be able to do after many more months of development- but I think Flash based VR worlds will progress very fast due to the near total penetration, user base and professional developer base.
Posted by G.P. on 04/13/08
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