Elflight Engine Announced
3 August 2007 - 09:00:00 UK
Coded Edge is pleased to announce the Elflight Engine - a high performance 3D streaming game engine.
Developed over the last 18 months, it has been designed from the 'ground up' for use over the World Wide Web.
The streaming aspect of the engine has been the result of careful consideration and essentially allows a near 'instant play' experience for the gamer. No massive downloads and no massive updates!
The technology is particularly well suited to the development of MMOs and Virtual Worlds. The data can be streamed incrementally as the player explores the world around them and the worlds can be updated in real time, often unnoticeable to the player.
Since the engine uses industry-standard OpenGL and Java, games developed using the Elflight Engine will run on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Most major web browsers are supported including Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari.
An early version of the Elflight Engine has already been utilised in a commercial project and has demonstrated it's resilience and performance.
Coded Edge are in the final stages of developing a technology preview of the current version of the engine to demonstrate it's features and in particular, it's MMO capabilities. The platform for that demonstration will be an MMO game called Elflight.
A formal announcement will be made on the Coded Edge website when the Elflight technology preview is available. Our current conservative estimate is quarter 4, 2007.
A second commercial application of the engine demonstrating its wide versatility is under development and an announcement of it's release will be made in due course.
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