Serious Games For Anyone To Make The World Of Their Dream

by on 17 December, 2007 - 19:59

Serious Games generating an immersive community hub

Via: VastPark - From the Founder, Features and Gallery“Dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible” - T.E. Lawrence“VastPark is a virtual content platform that enables you to create and deploy your own 3D virtual world within minutes. Play with ideas, add physics, trial concepts and publish them online. You might not have used 3D before, but you can do this!”

According
to Bruce Joy, VastPark Founder & CEO, VastPark's tools are digital
crayons for a new medium. Although VastPark suits creating virtual
worlds, you may find it useful for many purposes including: digital
puppetry, interactive 3D PowerPoint presentations, game creation and
immersive exploration of architecture.

Already
in its 'beta' form, VastPark is a significant step forward in enabling
the dreamer inside you to dream and for others to share and participate
in your worlds.

“Grow Your Own” – VastPark’s Value PropositionVastPark
team is working hard to ensure that the platform can be adopted by
online communities, corporations, individuals and indie developers
alike.They hope you will download the software, play with it, get involved and come to love this new medium.

VastPark Background - Web Needing an Infusion of Game Technology"Back
in 1999, Bruce Joy realized that the Web needed an infusion of game
technology to form a new multi-user medium that was part-Web, Game,
Social space and 'Interactive TV'.

At
the time he had been working in media for a decade and a life changing
event led to him to think about a whole new medium. He envisaged an
online medium of communication and collaboration with the flexibility
of being able to rearrange your own virtual atomic building blocks and
instantly re-link them onto other people's virtual blocks. This had the
potential to build whole new economies around it: new ways of thinking
about persistent gaming, even new ways of 'traveling' between offices
and engaging in online social activities.

It
was not until the start of 2003 that he was ready to hire engineers.
Since then they’ve continued to focus on the tough questions: how to
scale the virtual web up to millions of worlds; how to connect them
together; and how to solve the infrastructure issues so that no one
person or company 'owns' the virtual web. Although their
'beta' software implementation requires Microsoft Windows®, their
underlying framework is absolutely cross-platform and non-device
specific.

With VastPark,
organizations can build a virtual hub for their online communities that
contains their own and user generated virtual worlds and so much more
that can be linked together to form a seamless web of independent
worlds.

Current Status

Right
now they're focusing on helping developers understand their tools
through a private beta community. Before Xmas, the Creator tool will
have its first open beta release. It’s when they also aim to offer the
first closed beta release of their Asset Publisher.Original post: http://elianealhadeff.blogspot.com/2007/12/serious-games-for-anyone-to-make-world.html