Alternativa Platform blog

Captain Zorro. Last Hope - mini-shooter on Alternativa3D

Alexander Karpovich — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:55:05 +0000

Here you can see a couple of screenshots from small indy-gameCaptain Zorro. Last Hope, which uses Alternativa3D.

The story is quite fresh: you must save Mars by destroying robots controlled by crazy planet supercumputer :)

Tanki Online open test launch parties!

Alexander Karpovich — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:47:47 +0000

Alright, we’re kinda getting back to real life and we can tell you something about two «Tanki Online» parties we had this weekend.

At 4th of June we did small and very nice evening for close friends and partners in our friends’ WoodHouse Cafe.

At right pic you can see SUN, she’s one of the best project beta-testers. Cafe boss James is standing there too.

That evening may be called informal. Open party at June 6th may be called pure trash mess badaboom:

Pics and comments
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Tanki Online — open test

Anton Volkov — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:57:08 +0000

Almost a month has passed from the closed beta launch. There was about 600 testers who have discovered more than 200 bugs and helped us a lot by making notes and suggestions. Nevertheless, there’s still much work to do. We have plenty of ideas and of course there are bugs to fix. We’ll work hard on all this stuff during next months.

Now, we invite you to participate in open test of Tanki Online!

Slides from presentations on FlashGAMM and KRI

Anton Volkov — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:09:24 +0000

Tanki - multiplayer 3D-action in browser (russian & english)
Download in OpenOffice format (18Mb)

New type of multiplayer browser games (russian only)
Download in OpenOffice format (12Mb)

Back from KRI-2009

Alexander Karpovich — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:44:00 +0000

We just got back from Game Developers Conference in Moscow. We’re “Best game without publisher” and “Best technology”, hurray!

Tanki Online: closed beta-test

Alexander Karpovich — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:55:52 +0000

With a great satisfaction let us invite our readers to take part in closed beta-test of “Tanki Online” game.

To get your invite code please drop us a letter to tanki@alternativaplatform.com
We’ll be also glad to get your name, occupation, company name and a reason of interest (but we’ll send you invite code even without that).

The discussion is on the forum.

Please be constructive and positive to a painful debugging process.

Hurray!

Preparing 3d-models for Alternativa3D

Alexander Karpovich — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:23:38 +0000

We got a lot of questions about preparing models for Alternativa3D, so the engine could display them fast. Here’s a short help article from Makc for you. Let us know if you have more questions.

New tutorial - Creating interactivity

Alexander Karpovich — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:06:38 +0000

Have a look at new lesson on interactivity from Mattew Casperson. Cool stuff!

Buzzluck.com — Virtual lobby for one of the best Flash-casinos online with Alternativa3D

Alexander Karpovich — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:10:44 +0000

We are glad to feature new project from our partners Zther Interactive — Buzzluck.com. This top-quality project use Alternativa3D to create different walkable virtual space experience.

Joel Caballero from Zther Interactive agreed to give us a short interview on Alternativa3D usage for the project:
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WAR.RU — new multiplayer browser game using Alternativa3D

Alexander Karpovich — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:55:02 +0000

We’d like to congratulate our partners, Q1 company on reaching open beta of WAR.RU game development. It uses Alternativa3D for displaying game world and travelling. The game invites players to choose one of three races and join endless war between fractions, delivering old-fashioned dungeon crawling yet freshly implemented gameplay, all that right in browser.

Exey Panteleev, Flash-developer from Q1, has a story about Alternativa3D usage for you:
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