We will be in Bordeaux, France, next 10th of May to present Minko. We will talk about the main issues and constraints regarding the workflow for 3D applications and how Minko helps. This event is organized by TTFX (TonTons FleXeurs), the Flash French user group.
You can book your tickets and get more details about the event on EventBrite.
It’s free and open to everyone so we hope we’ll see you there!
“Somewhere in the European sky, the French Air Force made a terrible discovery that will upset the world. Flying saucers are about to destroy our world. Citizen of the Earth, it’s time for you to join “The Mirage”. Only you can save mankind…”
If you like playing games or if you just like shooting flying saucers, ‘The Mirage’ is for you. It’s a simple 3D multiplayer game achieved in 24 hours thanks to Minko and our talented team of engineers. “The Mirage” targets mobile devices (iPhone, iPad and Android) and web browsers.
You can also use your mobile device (iPhone or Android) as a game controller. And you don’t even need to install an app. to do that! Thanks to Orbit, we were able to create this real-time experience right in the web browser of your smartphone with an HTML5 web application.
You don’t have to download anything, the game can be controlled with an HTML5 web application available directly in the browser for iOS and Android. The experience works on Wi-Fi and even 3G.
Discover how Orbit – our real-time networking technology – made it possible to create a new kind of augmented reality experience. We call it a “cross-reality” experience, where the virtual and real world blend in a smooth and intuitive experience like never before! You can experience it online right now on the website of Eristoff Black.
The following video is a case study of the application we created with MNSTR, the digital agency behind the amazing Eristoff Black campaign:
To see what the experience looks like, here is a video:
If you want to create this kind of experiences, please contact us!
The ShaderLab is a web application providing a visual programming environment to create, test and share hardware accelerated rendering effects or “shaders”. It benefits from Minko’s optimized JIT compiler to create high speed and lightweight shaders.
If you have questions or suggestions, please post them on Aerys Answers or in the comments.
In this video:
Other features:
“2040, a NATO spy satellite discovers a long time forgotten Nazi base in the desertic lands of Artic. This secret base once was a laboratory of the “Black Sun”, the occult division of the 3rd Reich. It appears they have been running strange experiments on extraterrestrial material found in meteorites. A team of marines was sent there to investigate… You are the only survivor.”
That’s the pitch for our latest experiment called “BlackSun”. It’s meant to be an homage to Wolfenstein 3D, the very first 3D PC game. BlackSun is a very simple and yet effective 3D shooting game available right in your browser.
Of course, the game was built with Minko, our free and open source 3D engine for the Adobe Flash Platform. Thanks to Minko, we were able to create the scene with classic CAO tools such as Autodesk 3DS Max and Maya and use them in our application. We also used our upcoming exclusive 3D compression algorithms to reduce the total size of the game to less than 10MB.
This very first release is just a technical preview but it already features:
For now, we’ve just published a first technical preview so you’ll have to wait a bit longer to start the nazi aliens slaughter… But stay tuned, democracy needs you!
Minko 1.2 was released yesterday, adding a couple of technical things that you might want to check out on Jean-Marc’s blog.
Oh, and by the way, the exciting things that you might have seen during our presentations are around the corner.
Featured applications:
When we decided to release Minko as an open source project, our goal was to build a huge community around the project. And a community needs places to gather and exchange. This is why a month ago we opened a forum dedicated to Minko on Mediabox for the French community. We are especially commited to the French community as Aerys is a French company. Of course, it doesn’t mean we don’t care about the rest of the world. Quite the opposite actually. This is why we decided to create and host our own support forum.
It is called Aerys Answers and it is now officially available. You just have to create a free Aerys ID, log in and start asking questions and share what you know with the community. Please note that those IDs will soon be required to access early beta programs and a lot of cool and exclusive features.
We sure hope this is just the beginning of a big and successful community! If you need professional techincal support, please contact us!
I will present Minko during two events in the next few weeks in France (Paris, Lyon and Dijon) and in Portugal (Lisbone). I will present the current version of Minko, a few 3D programming tricks and techniques and the tools that will be available with the next version.
If you are a Flex/Flash User Group leader and you want us to present our technologies during a meeting or an event, contact us and we will be happy to help!
The Open Source Day is organized by EPITA, a french computer engineering school. The event promotes open source technologies.
The Rage3D meeting is an opportunity for 3D profesionnals to discuss about the business of (real-time) 3D applications and how they affect the world of IT.
A FlashCamp organized by the Lisbon Flash User Group. You can register for this event on EventBrite.
An event organized by the Flex User Group of Lyon.
Here are a few useful links: