Adobe Promises "Console Quality" Games with New 3D Flash
SuperDX Words With Friends Championship Hyper Fighting 3D
Fully rendered 3D Farmville? Perhaps. Hooray?
Some of the biggest companies in gaming are preparing to unleash new releases powered by Adobe's latest developments: Flash Player 11 and AIR 3.
As technology moves on at a rapid pace the latest versions will apparently "allow game publishers to instantly deliver console-quality 2D and 3D games over the Internet." Now, whether this is PS1 quality or something a bit more modern, we're yet to see. The developers seem quite excited though...
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they're going to be stretching their skills too far. Ubisoft, makers of Assassins Creed and Rayman, is promising the thrills of looking after virtual animals in Petz World while Zynga is offering "next-generation" of their games. That'll be a slightly prettified FarmVille then.
There are bonuses though. Rather than working from the ground up for every device, developers can build their games using Flash knowing that a huge range of platforms will run them. Flash is everywhere. We all know that and we know that it's capable of doing some pretty impressive things. If only the developers would push the boundaries a bit and really go for something different.
With Flash running on 98% of all internet-connected PCs and nearly one billion smartphones worldwide it's great that Adobe are giving developers the tools to create games and applications with some grunt behind them. Now, how do we convice that us gamers want something a bit more taxing than Mafia Wars?
Source: Technology4Media
As technology moves on at a rapid pace the latest versions will apparently "allow game publishers to instantly deliver console-quality 2D and 3D games over the Internet." Now, whether this is PS1 quality or something a bit more modern, we're yet to see. The developers seem quite excited though...
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they're going to be stretching their skills too far. Ubisoft, makers of Assassins Creed and Rayman, is promising the thrills of looking after virtual animals in Petz World while Zynga is offering "next-generation" of their games. That'll be a slightly prettified FarmVille then.
There are bonuses though. Rather than working from the ground up for every device, developers can build their games using Flash knowing that a huge range of platforms will run them. Flash is everywhere. We all know that and we know that it's capable of doing some pretty impressive things. If only the developers would push the boundaries a bit and really go for something different.
With Flash running on 98% of all internet-connected PCs and nearly one billion smartphones worldwide it's great that Adobe are giving developers the tools to create games and applications with some grunt behind them. Now, how do we convice that us gamers want something a bit more taxing than Mafia Wars?
Source: Technology4Media
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irritant 21 Sep 2011 15:55
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Maybe they should think about getting current flash stable enough so that more people will adopt support for it, first.
TimSpong 21 Sep 2011 15:58
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