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DirectX 11 Coming To Browser Games 200

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @04:47AM from the see-the-stubble-on-your-stick-figure's-chin dept.

arcticstoat writes "Forget Farmville, Flash puzzlers and 8-bit home computer emulators. The next generation of browser games will be able to take advantage of DirectX 11 effects, not to mention multi-core processing and both Havok and PhysX physics effects. A new browser plug-in called WebVision will be available for Trinergy's new game engine, Vision Engine 8. This will enable game developers to port all the advanced effects from the game engine over to all the common browsers. Of course, any budding 3D-browser-game dev will face the problem that not every PC has a decent graphics card that can handle advanced graphics effects. Not only that, but limited bandwidth will also limit what effects a developer can realistically implement into a browser game. Nevertheless, this is an interesting development that could result in some tight 3D programming, as well as some much more interesting browser games."

Comment Sporttracks (Score 1) 188

by darrellt on Monday October 05, 2009 @08:03AM (#29642833) Attached to: Open Access To Exercise Data?

Sporttracks is free and very well supported. Far better than the software that came with my Garmin watch.

BioWare On Building a Community For Dragon Age 34

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @06:13AM from the let-me-tell-you-a-story dept.

Ray Muzyka, co-founder of BioWare, sat down with Gamasutra to discuss upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins, as well as some of the features they're working on for release alongside the game. In particular, they are interested in building a framework for players to show off their characters and share stories about the gameplay they encounter. "We're creating a community site that's going to enable the fans to get revved up about what each other is doing. They're showing their choices and consequences to friends. Even though it's single-player, you can still reveal those choices to each other and have fun doing it. It enables some of that stuff that occurs anecdotally amongst friends at the water cooler: 'Hey, did you play this yet? Did you go this way?' 'No, I didn't run into that. I did it this way.' 'Really? I didn't run into that at all!' You can meet people who are across the world and enable them to see those kinds of things, too, which I think will lead to a lot of fun discussion and collaboration in the community."

Comment Authors... (Score 1) 174

by darrellt on Monday August 03, 2009 @12:23PM (#28928943) Attached to: Has Conficker Been Abandoned By Its Authors?

Did the same authors write this article using the same skills in use of grammar? ;-)

Comment Natural Selection (Score 1) 661

by darrellt on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @07:10AM (#28688665) Attached to: Swine Flu Kills Obese People Disproportionately

Isn't this just a classic example of natural selection; survival of the fittest? We all have life choices, the majority of the world's population can choose to eat a more healthy diet and exercise more, but if they choose not to then they have to accept the consequences. Nobody is forced to eat more than their body needs nor to exercise less, it's a personal choice in the main.

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