Unity3D Powers New Mass Media MMO

I TOLD you Unity3D is going to be big. Really big. This article talks about how Cartoon Network's MMO is going to use Unity technology in their web mmo. I wonder if Unity might become the spiritual successor to Director on the web?

The Future of the Internet is Fabbing: Shapeways

Fabbing is basically allowing anyone to create 3d objects. I firmly believe this will be as big or bigger than the inventing of the printing press. This is the inventing of the "anything press".

While I cannot get into the site yet (pleeeeeze beta me!) I can totally see this as becomming a part of the fabbing movement.

What should really happen now is Shapeways should team up with Ponoko....

Unity3D - the Killer App Tool for 2009

Think about it. An application that makes it easy to create games for everything from a PC to a Mac to an iPhone to a Wii. And uses Javascript - one of the most used programming languages on the planet - as it's scripting engine.

The interface is awesome, the engine is fast and flexible, and if you are an indie game developer it's very affordable.

I would venture to say that 2008 may be a good year for Unity, but I think more likely the "inflection point" will hit some time in early 2009 and you'll see some really amazing things from folks that build with this.

If you are frustrated with Adobe with its Flash and Director stuffage - give Unity3D a try and see for yourself.

I'm seriously tempted to buy a copy if only to enhance my skills as a javascript developer.

Alien Terminator on Game Giveaway of the Day

Since Giveawayoftheday doesnt release a new game every day, its something of an event when a new game comes up. This weekend's game is called Alien Terminator. While it seems like you might think it's something like H.R. Giger meet's Ahnald, it's really about piloting a space truck with a really big gun across a martian landscape killing suprisingly human-shaped enemies. I can't say it's the greatest game I've ever played, but the graphics are decent and the run and gun style gameplay makes it seem more like a kinda wave based shmup. And it most certainly is worth the price of admission.

If you are leery about Giveawayoftheday.com let me just say that I've been downloading games from them for at least a year if not longer, and there's never been a hint of spyware or viruses from them. Check em out!

Defender of the favicon

I'm so very jealous. Here is another masterpiece of javascript development:

DEFENDER of the favicon is a JavaScript remake of Eugene Jarvis' brilliant arcade game Defender written by Mathieu 'p01' Henri and inspired by Scott Schiller's experiment with generated favicons VU meter. The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs.

Who's going to create the first favicon RPG?

Grumble grumble.

These folks whip this stuff out in 3 days and I am still working on getting time to port an antiquated JS game library to modern times.

Grumble grumble.

find your strength

I'm not really sure what this site is about yet, but it looks intriguing.

Hide and Seek Festival - this looks fun!

This is a very interesting blog. Sometimes I stumble across something too cool to keep to myself. This person talks about a "Hide and Seek Festival" - which at first sounds kinda childish, until you read about some of the social realtime games they had come up with and played. Makes me want to start something like that here.

I gotta get back into blog posting. Twitter has poisoned my ability to post - when you can fire off little snippets any time, why blog?

QR Codes from Google Charts!

This is really an amazing development. It's something that seems like a "sleeper" feature that could really take off. You can now use Google charts api to create QR codes which could then be used on websites, t-shirts, or anything you can think of. As more phones "read" that code, the usefulness will expand exponentially. Very cool!

Keeping busy

I'm keeping super busy at work. You know, startup and all. I feel bad about not posting too much right now, but you'll see lots of amazing things soon.

Battle of Tiles: Tower Defense meets RPG

I heard about this game from the GameTunnel what's new article this month. This game has very crappy graphics and the game text itself is pretty bad also. However if you put those things aside you will find yourself playing a very very fun game! Imagine if you took a tower defense game with tiles and such, and turned those towers into armies of wizards, skeletons, etc which you place in formation before waves of enemies.

As you march your formations forward you can arrange your armies and wipe out your enemies. However that might not always be the best strategy. You can earn money defeating enemies and use that to "buy" your enemy tiles! You might have a "boss" creature coming right at you but suddenly he's your ally since you built up a ton of money. This game has huge potential, and I'll be the clones will be appearing as soon as this game gets traction. Support this smart game creator and fork over the measley $5 it takes to register the game. Hopefully he/she will use that money to hire a decent artist for their next game!!

Experimenting with Dojo in Google Ajax Libraries API

I don't think people have realized just what sort of revolution in web apps is about to happen because of the hosting of Dojo, JQuery and other javascript libraries. They are taking a step from being this random js library that you include yourself to a standard include that anyone can refer to in a normalized way.

Anyway - because of this, I am checking out Dojo's amazing suite of 2d drawing routines. Do you realize you could finally do rounded corners with no images using the hosted Dojo libraries?

Streaming Game Music : Rainwave

I am so impressed with this website! Understated and javascript driven, you get a list of videogame soundtracks that are currently playing and you can vote for the next song to come up in the playlist. Very well done! You'll need a player that understands ogg streaming like videolan to enjoy the music.

Two thumbs up!!