Of course our specialists were always ready to help players anytime but we are humans too and sometimes need to rest. With the old crew some of our members were to get up at night to solve players’ problems. But sleepy staff need a lot of time to deal even with an easy task.

And now there are no difficulties! We’ve got four new tech support specialists. Meet Nikita Chalov, Sergey Nagovitsyn, Victor Soldatov and Petr Vasiliev! The guys get the hang of things extremely fast and already work by shifts, so players can get any help in the 24/7 mode.

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.

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:

For example, Alternativa3D 7 is successfully used in our project Tanki Online; the engine can also be used in projects with character animation.

If you decide to use Alternativa3D 7, send project description and short text about your team to management@alternativaplatform.com — we will contact you and discuss the scheme of cooperation. Collaboration in investment search is also possible.

Technical information about Alternativa3D version 7:
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To imitate reflection we use special spherical or hemispherical (fish eye) environment maps and recalculate UV-coordinates of an object according to its position against camera.

Controls:

• Arrow keys, W, S, A, D - camera movement
• Drag mouse - look around
• Q - change quality
• Tab - debug mode

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.

This is a unique example of how to use 3D in website navigation. In the heart of it is a simplified simulator of a car: driving the small but smart IQ the user can view sections of the site just approaching them.

Typical features of the site: the user gets information about Toyota IQ dynamics simply using navigation, in other words, on a native level. One can’t exclude the gaming side of the navigation - view of the site becomes a jovial and pleasant occupation. Rolls and skidding of the car during big turns look rather realistic!

iq.toyota.ru

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.