“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.
Try BlackSun now!
This very first release is just a technical preview but it already features:
- Real-time 3D rendering
- Dynamic and static lighting
- Projected shadows
- HDR rendering
- Hardware accelerated animations
- Physics
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!
