Newbie enquiry re using Revolution for Myst style games

[Dan Shafer]

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:01 AM, Edwin Gore wrote:

> It's too bad that the market these days doesn't really seem to have 
> any place for brilliant, imaginative, playful software like those 
> original Cyan games.
>
I'm not so sure.

I spent some time last weekend watching my 13-year-old granddaughter 
using the Web. Quite a few of the sites she visited have what I'd call 
atmospheric games. They are more Web-aware, have multi-player options, 
build in instant messaging and community aspects, and are *somewhat* 
less graphically rich (living within the confines of the browser.)

I think a compelling atmospheric game a la Myst built in Revolution in 
a way that was Web-aware and overcame the browser's limitations would 
in fact make a potentially huge product. I have a friend who's building 
a 3-D online adventure game using Adobe's Atmosphere technology so that 
it runs over the Web. I don't know how much success he's had so far, 
but I know he's working actively on it. He's checking out Rev right now 
as a possible new way to handle the front end because the UI 
surrounding the 3D stuff doesn't feel compelling in a browser.



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Dan Shafer, Revolutionary
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"Revolution: Programming at the Speed of Thought"
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