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• By Rich

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  adobe max, alternativa 3d, demo, gpu, molehill, stage3d

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  9 Videos showcasing Flash 3D GPU

  28th Oct 2010

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  As pretty much all Flash devs connected to the Internet now know, Adobe announced proper 3D GPU support for Flash at the Adobe Max 2010 Conference. Codenamed “Molehill” you can read all about it here. I’m not going to wax lyrical about how great this will be, but instead I just wanted to collect together all the great videos showing this new technology off.

  Max Racer

  The one that started it all, as shown in the Max 2010 opening Keynote.

  

  There are three videos featuring this game: The Multiplayer version, the Single Player version and a video introduction to what Flash 3D is all about (featuring this game) by Thibault Imbert.

  Ostrova Online

  From Alternativa, the same team who created the Max Racer game above, this is another showcase of their technology.

  

  There are two videos of this game: The original one (referred to as “Islands Online” on Twitter, but non-Russian speakers!) and this slightly newer one, showing the game scene from different angles.

  Metro 2033 Online

  The final video from Alternativa.

  

  View on YouTube.

  Doesn’t showcase much, other than a murky tunnel system and some nicely animated monsters. It’s apparently a turn-based browser MMO-game in the universe of “Metro 2033” novel by famous Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsk.

  Zombie Tycoon Demo

  This is a lovely looking game demo of Zombie Tycoon by Frima Studio.

  

  Featuring half a million polygons, 500 zombies and some beautiful shadow and lighting effects, this is certainly exciting stuff! There are two versions of this video: The first is from the blog of Jean-Philippe Auclair who works for Frima Studio. His blog entry is a fascinating read because it gives some juicy technical details. His version of the video has the HiRes Stats component visible in the top left, so you can get a good idea of framerate / ram (in the HD version at least!). The second video is the official one which is similar, but without the interesting stats 🙂

  Disconnected Demo

  Last but not least is a new demo created by the Away 3D guru Rob Bateman and the Flash demo crew EvoFlash.

  

  Take a trip around a (rather grey looking) city. Flying cars zoom by, water reflects the world, and then a giant purple metaball drops in and explodes the place into bits. Lovely demoscene music to boot.

  I can’t wait to see what else is coming! I also can’t wait until this is in public beta. FlashPlayer 11 is going to be a real game changer for game developers at long, long, last.

• By iLKke

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  color

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  Pixel Art

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  Clothes Make the Man

  28th Oct 2010

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  only 4 colours, click to zoomify

• By iLKke

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  color, dog, pixel art

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  Log Bomb

  24th Oct 2010

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• By iLKke

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  black and white

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  Guerrilla Fashion

  20th Oct 2010

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• By Rich

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  3D, cyberspace, fractals, math, particles, polynomial

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  New Releases

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  The Polynomial : Space of the Music

  17th Oct 2010

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  I found The Polynomial : Space of the Music while browsing Steam today, I had been working hard and decided to treat myself to a little slice of indie game fun, and this was top of the list. The beautiful visuals caught my eye instantly, looking a playable Apple OS X wallpaper. Then I watched the video in motion and was transfixed. £5.99 down and a few minutes later and I was having a gleeful time. Dipping in and out of 3d fractal flowers, diving around colourful spiralling rainbow twists, and trying my hardest to work out what the game was all about.

  In essence it appears to be a simple shooter, but while it starts out sedate enough there comes a point where you seem to be frantically fighting for your life. Your whole room glowing from the chunks of vivid exploding debris flying past. It reminded me a lot of the 16-bit classic Interphase (although without as much puzzle solving depth!) but this is really something you play for the visuals. I admit it looks like something that should have fallen out of Jeff Minters hard drive, but that isn’t the case, and it’s all the better for it.

  

  You can throw your own soundtrack into it, and the whole game will draw itself around that. Pulsating and winding in time to the beat. There are masses of beautiful screen grabs up in the Polynomial gallery, and I’d urge anyone who has an interest in beautiful playful environments, or fractal / mathematical art, to check it out. It’s as much about the easy creation of stunning images as it is a game, but that’s no bad thing.

  

  Available now on Steam for both PC and Mac, there’s a demo available too.