There’s an interesting video up of Gaikai, the new venture from David Perry (the man behind Shiny Entertainment & games such as Earthwork Jim). It will apparently allow anyone with a fast enough connection to play a wide catalog of 3d console and PC games, without needing any fancy 3d hardware. The games are hosted on the Gaikai servers and apparently streamed to the player in real time via the Flash player.
Gaikai – Video Demo
It will be interesting to see how they work around various technical obstacles… getting Flash to work with various console controllers for one.
oldskool73 Adobe/Flash/Flex, games
Unity 3D is ‘a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation.’
If you are a Flash developer interested in getting started with Unity 3D there’s a great series of video tutorials from Richard Hart available on Vimeo…
Unity for Flash Developers
oldskool73 Adobe/Flash/Flex, links unity video
For the last month my flatmate has been pulling his hair out trying to make a showreel DVD. He’s been working in Encore CS3 on XP and has come across no end off issues, from random interactions and lack of help to unhandled C++ errors that crash the whole system. Even after contacting Adobe support there seems to be issues that no-one has heard of or has fixes for.
Today he took is project to a friend using DVD Studio Pro on OSX and got done in 3 hours what’s taken him weeks in Encore. Everyone he speaks to seems to use Final Cut Pro, and he’s a hairs breadth away from jacking it all in and buying all new Apple hardware and software simply so he doesn’t have to use Encore any more.
My argument many times has been ‘user error’ (at least to some degree), he only uses the software to do a new DVD once a year and I find it hard to believe that one of the premier software packages from Adobe simply doesn’t work? But am I right, is he just doing something wrong, or is FCP really that much better?
This is an honest question, don’t want to start flamewars just get some opinions from people in the know.
Cheers
oldskool73 Adobe/Flash/Flex, hints & tips
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