Aves Engine - HTML/JavaScript - A Web Game Engine - Sneak Preview (www.dextrose.com)

[zc456]

Dear god almighty, they created Sims Online-like game in JavaScript!

@TheShadeII

Soo close. D:

[GameEnginesAreGay]

Game engines are a pain in the ass.

I've tried others like Unity, DirectX Studio, GameStudio... the list goes on. The bottom line is that programming your own engine is the best way to go.

If the engine is very fast and flexible, chances are you'll have to suffer from no documentation.

Writing your own version of something that "acts" as an engine is way less gay than writing something gay like an engine, or using engines that bring not enough help.

Write games raw.

-Anti-Engine Team.

[Galvorn11]

Behold the future of videogames!!!! with graphics from 1998....by the way i love the first monkey island (im serious).

[darkkenok]

e-sim.org/lan.702/ <Look this game

Is a simulator of world

(Political, military and economic)

[grgs2]

What tileset did you use for the surface? Or did you make it yourself?

[coolbloke1324]

Check out the Isogenic Game Engine for something similar since this is no longer available!

[TheMasterMind555]

Waiwaiwaiwait, THAT was made in JavaScript? LOLHOW??

[madichelp0]

"The most sophisticated game engine for the web" and then unity showed up...

[apoc4223]

Whats that event driven backend? node.js?

[siliconsurf]

bunch of sellouts...but that's opportunity for some else to start a better company.

[catchthatchucky]

where I can download the damn thing?

[crackfreak]

@catchthatchucky bought by zynga - it will probably never be released

fuck these idiots -.-

[JREAMdesign]

HTML5 will also run world of warcraft!

[rbrtchng]

Fuking zynga

[newholborn]

Fucking sellouts.

[killerpacdot]

Fuck YEYAH!

[DrRayLV]

Is the project still alive? This is awesome.

[MrJeeba]

Hey im doing a web game like that, kinda master of orion but with Zergs hehe, well my view is not isometric, but eagle eye. Thought this looks Cool!

[mQtek]

Is it possible to make a game like lord of ultima or Evony?

[TheShadeII]

fuck... they have been bought by zynga... that means no open source for sure... :(

[stefanvideodump]

@TheShadeII Yes, very sad. Zynga (the creators of farmville) will relase a big social network game and create a 2d Facebook "Matrix" where you can vistit friends in real time and play all kind of games (fighting, farming and so on). This could be a real cash cow for them.

[killerpacdot]

@TheShadeII Anything in JS is open source.

[TheShadeII]

@killerpacdot Um... no! Have you ever tried to read obfuscated JS? Especially if the sourcode is long you have no chance!

[slier81]

thats the power javascript

[drumphoenix]

make a palm pre app for this!

[actraiser]

We released a new video at E3 2010. Search for Aves Engine on Youtube and watch the E3 Video!

[buddaboy]

Very cool sneak peak!

[Sacyn]

This is really awesome, good work!

[h8s2]

It looks like it would be possible to implement the world with CSS as well, assuming all of the sprites are prerendered. This would make it compatible with older browsers. Unless, of course, you plan to support Canvas, VML, and SVG.

[daridave]

Very nice. I've built an identical engine, but with a simple 2D view, not isometric. Using both frontend and backend code (a combination of ajax dhtml, javascript w/ jquery, css, php) and useful techniches with sprites and intervals/timeouts, it's very easy to build an engine.

People may be surprised by this... but games can be easily done in a web page! It's the "avoid cheating "aspect of it that complicates things.

[Hedgehogs4Me]

Whoa, that's amazing. I didn't know people made such complicated game engines in javascript. Here I was thinking that it was all Actionscript/Java, while meanwhile, something spectacular like this is happening.

[hesham20107]

شكرا يا جميل بس هذا الفيديو ليس برائع

[in2void]

Nur dumm dass die Browser nicht schnell genug sind.

[ARSCHKOCH]

Abgefahren! That's an awesome innovation, the web is getting serious... fun ;)

[MusicFree4You]

Nett. Aber warum HTML/JavaScript ? Javascript ist ok für dynamische

Features in Websites aber nicht für (komplexere) Spiele.

[stefs]

@MusicFree4You aber wieso denn nicht? ;) flash war auch mal nicht mehr als ein spielzeug für simple animationen, und jetzt gibts mmorpgs auf der plattform. schau mal auf kongregate, newgrounds & co ... außerdem, was sind schon dynamische websites - gmail? google docs?

javascript hat in den letzten jahren durch die neuen engines - nitro, v8 & tracemonkey - ordentlich an bedeutung gewonnen, da stehen wir erst ganz am anfang.

[Maturion]

schaut fantastisch aus :)

[0xC0FF33]

Nice engine, but what are the minumun specs for a client? Such a heavy js code doesn't run very well on older machines, i think...

[actraiser]

@0xC0FF33 well, even the not very optimized prototype you see in ths video runs smoothly in Safari on iPhone 3GS. The iPhone has a 600MHZ CPU and 256MB of RAM. So, the Games will run just fine on any PC as long as modern browser with a advanced javascript engine is available - which basically includes any mainstream browser today.

[brainwipe]

@actraiser It's worth noting that with most JS slow down it's the browser, not the host machine that causes the slow down. The better the browser engine, the fast the game will be. IE6, for example, has a dreadfully slow render engine compared to modern IE/Chrome/Safari/ETC.

BTW, a very cool tech demo indeed.

[siliconsurf]

@0xC0FF33 if you're still using a slow ass pentium 2 computer, you should kill yourself, loser!

[0xC0FF33]

@siliconsurf The pentium 2 would be enough for downloading your data and delete your files :P

[siliconsurf]

@0xC0FF33 you cheap motherfucker, upgrade your computer to a dual core, bitch.

[CGeorgesWWW]

Very awsome, can't wait to get my hands on it:D

[newholborn]

@CGeorgesWWW You won't, they sold it to Zynga.

[kingmaxxx]

This does look like Ultima Online :-)