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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Not wanting to blow Unity’s trumpet
for them, however … Unity3d is totally committed to browser-based games.
It’s their core focus and their game engine is totally geared in that
direction, although it’s just as easy to create a standalone executable as
it is a browser app.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Whilst the plugin penetration rate is
still relatively low compared to Flash or Shockwave, they have the best plugin
installer out of all of them and the installation success rate is among the
highest. It won’t hijack users to their own homepage and there are no
annoying toolbar installations, either ;)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The major drawback is that development is
Mac only at the moment. That’s huge for a studio like ours where
everything is geared up for PC and makes it difficult for the company to adopt.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Unity development is in C# or Javascript
and you can use the supplied Unitron text editor or any other IDE like Visual
Studio (even the free express edition!) to develop with, which makes
programmers very happy! Source control is totally possible either through their
own asset management system or the usual systems (we use SVN). I haven’t
seen a Unity-built game that failed to install or run on either my PCs or Macs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Their support is incredible and they are a
very approachable, friendly company … which in my book rates them very
high after so many bad support experiences with others in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Jeff.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> casual_games-bounces@igda.org
[mailto:casual_games-bounces@igda.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Gert-Jan Brok<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 20, 2008 4:04
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">IGDA
Casual Games SIG Mailing List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [casual_games] browser
based game engines</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>In a search
for the holy grail of browser based game engines. It always seems that they
stay in a niche.<br>
Flash managed to grab the major part of the market, even surpassing it's (then
superior) brother Director (shockwave).<br>
Wild Tangent has turned more towards consoles, Virtools is only getting picked
up slowely, Otoy (I was impressed by the 2006 presentation at the GDC) hasn't
made any announcement since (buy out?). Anark isn't really suited well for
online games. Adobe is working on their new version of Flash, that has hardware
support and the ability to create extensions or code entire projects in C++. But
it isn't here yet.<br>
But it seems that here in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:place></st1:country-region>
we've got a company that is not only developing a great 3D online platform. But
is also specifically aimed at and supporting game developers. I spoke with them
and they are really passionate about their product. I would suggest to check
out there site and register for the beta <a href="http://www.kalydo.com/">http://www.kalydo.com/</a><br>
<br>
Does anyone here know of any other platforms out there that are serious about
bringing good quality 3D games to the browser?<br>
<br>
Gert-Jan Brok<br>
Fantazm<br>
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