Solutions - Casual Games
Casual games are targeted at a mass audience and as a result are quick to load and have simple rules like puzzles that allow anyone to quickly play the game in short bursts. They can be used as brand reinforcement or to add stickiness to a Web site. Examples of casual games include the very popular Minesweeper and Tetris. Because there is typically little or no direct revenue from causal games, quality needs to be maintained while keeping development costs to a minimum, they must also be quick to produce and roll out. Blink 3D can assist in all theses areas.
Inside the casual game, advertising and branding messages can be easily added using video, audio or still images. They can appear pre-game typically during loading or in-game often between game levels.
Casual games created with Blink 3D will run embedded in a Web page using our inDuality technology. inDuality is a plugin for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera and runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista. The plugin is automatically installed when anyone visits the Web page with your game embedded in it.
Blink 3D Benefits
- State of the art 3D graphics engine
- Easy to use point and click Behaviors for adding animation and interactivity
- Shaders Level 1 and Level 2 with supported shader languages: Cg, HLSL, GLSL and ASM
- Skyboxes, SkyDomes and SkyPlanes
- Dynamic shadows and lightmaps
- JavaScript based scripting language with over 100 classes and 2600 methods and properties
- Particle systems and full screen effects
- High end physics engine used in AAA game titles
- 3D sound including support for environmental sound modeling
- Video and HTML pages as textures
- Multiple pre-built navigation systems with ability for complete customization
- XMPP based object synchronization, character positioning and chat
- Web based which provides two way interaction between the HTML page and the game
Blink 3D supports a large number of DCC products including: 3DS Max, Maya, SketchUp, Blender, 3DS Max, Maya, XSI, AC3D, DeleD, MilkShape and FragMOTION. Blink 3D supports automatic asset creation and automatic asset synchronization. Make a change to an asset in your favorite 3D modeling product and it will be updated in your game within seconds. You can also use global illumination tools such as Gile[s] for creating your lightmaps.