Alternativa company doesn’t only create innovative technologies and games based on them, but also gladly cooperates with other developers. Our strategic partnership with Chelyabinsk company iHeroes is a wonderful example of such cooperation. With our help iHeroes works on 3D browser aquarium game for social networks using Alternativa Platform technologies.

Aqua 3D is the next step in the evolution of virtual fishes breeding games. In the Aqua you enter fully 3D underwater world with the huge amount of different fish variations. There are 759 375 combinations available! And you can play with any fish and even interbreed it with other fish. For example, you can interbreed your fish with the fish of your friend from social network. Aqua 3D combines a few different genres: it is a life simulator, puzzle and even action at the same time.

That is how it looks like:

Aqua 3D got its start in life due to close cooperation between Alternativa and iHeroes. And we are ready to build business relations with other potential partners, especially now, when the engine Alternativa3D 7 is ready and it allows to create online games of any genre on Flash. We’ve already told you about its great possibilities. We can also offer unique client-server solution AlternativaCore to our partners. It strongly simplifies and speeds up development of a real-time browser online game.

It’s not a secret that Alternativa company is working on new in-house and partner projects. One of them is the next generation of «Tanki Online».

This fall we will launch «Tanki Online 2.0» for social networks. In future the game will appear in My.Mail.Ru, Vkontakte and Facebook. It’ll be possible to play from any of these social networks and from tankionline.com website simultaneously. All users enter the same game space no matter where they come from.

New graphics is attached. We’ve completely changed lighting system so now you can hide tanks in the shadow and fight on night arenas. We’ve also animated track layers, added camera shaking effect, modernized interface greatly and prepared a lot of other cool stuff.

Entering social space we could not forget about socialization. User profiles, player’s reputation, achievements system and other social features will allow tankmen to communicate with each other more actively. At last we could do something interesting in Vkontakte :-)

«Tanki Online 2.0» in action:

This is how new interface looks like:

During the last weekend our friends and business partners from Chelyabinsk, company “iHeroes”, visited Perm. The purpose of the trip was studying of AlternativaPlatform technology. During the visit our specialists gave several masterclasses and lectures for “Heroes”.

Vladimir Babushkin - the leading developer of Alternativa3D — tells about the peculiarities of the library.

Alexey Kviring (server programmer) opens the “inner sanctum” to the partners — our platform.

The guests seemed to be longing for new information and got from our specialists as much knowledge as possible. This is not surprising at all: their project is entering the active phase of development.

Though news on blog have become rare, the work is in full swing, tens of tasks are being solved and discussions held. Don’t want to write about everyday routine while really intriguing news are under non-disclosure agreements. Though, everything will become public within several months.

We’re developing and our staff also widens. 6 new stars have appeared in our team since the last month.

	Aleksandra Medvedeva Coordinator of the game Tanki Online. Deals with aggregators and subcontractors, keeps statistics and leads the game marketing.
	Olga Stepanova Server programmer. Worked half rate for 3 months and finally decided to fully join the staff.
	Sergey Spesivov Responsible for 3D-modeling and texturing.
	Mikhail Yarusov 2D-designer — from icons to websites for current and future projects.
	Fedor Kulikov Application programmer of broad specialization.
	Grigory Bolotov Methodologist. Thoroughly studies Alternativa Platform technologies and passes his experience through documentation and other training aids.

Discussions are now held in the office since there’s no space for all of us in the negotiation room.

The tallest person in the team now is not Aleksey Kviring but Fedor Kulikov.

Our good friends from “Multivitamin” combined Tanki Online and their touchscreen, thus organizing multi-touch support on Flash 10.1. The legendary player Sun took part in the video.

Three years ago (01.12.06) we registered Alternativa Game LLC, brought the documents into the office and somebody noted that the 1st of December should be the company birthday.

During those days we went to different instances there and back, scheduled the plans, calculated expenses and were really somehow confused - everything happened for the first time.

On that day our project tankionline.com made a present to us - the number of players was more than 100 000.
Miracle or coincidence?

Alternativa Platform Company performed as the gold sponsor at FlashGAMM conference which took place on the 5-6th of December in Kyiv. Besides, the company’s CEO Alexandr Vladimirovich Karpovich and CTO Anton Alekseevich Volkov reported at the conference about economic and technical nuances of work on technological platform.

“Community of Flash-game developers are close and valuable people, with whom we jointly discover new type of games which is gaining popularity - 3D browser multiplayer realtime games on Flash” -  it was mentioned in the press-centre of the company and then everybody was invited to tea.

The ceremony of Russian Flash Awards was held on October, 24, during Russian Internet Week.

Apart from the awards “Technical achievement” and “Game” known to us, we were taken by surprise when got the “Grand Prix” for “the best project presented at the contest during its lifetime”.

Last year the award looked like a neutralized grenade framed in a brick, thus the guys had some problems in the airport. This year customs examination was followed by the words “you have the bag filled with some odd stuff”.

I must admit, to write a message about yourself seems kind of weird, but interesting as well.

My name is Eugenia Startseva and I’m a newcomer at “Alternativa”. My job is to sell licences to russian and foreign developers - very captivating activity!

If you are interested, write to startseva@alternativaplatform.com

send message on http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugeniastartseva

or ask in skype jane.startseva

Thanks for your attention!