Embed Vivaty in the Blog

Vivaty has a new feature for embedding the scene in other media such as this blog. The demo is a Queen + Paul Rogers song and scene. The install is painless and if you have earlier versions of the plugin, the install replaces them and everything just works. One quirk was the tip 2D layer didn't go away as it should have, otherwise, quite smooth.

Unlike 99% of humanity, I'm not a Queen fan but as a long time supporter of merging music and real-time 3D, I quite like the direction Vivaty took.

I've shown this before with the Google Lively application, but this is better 3D.

Superstruct

The idea of using MMOGs to solve world problems through simulation has been around but now The Institute for The Future is doing something about it.

Superstuct is a scenario planning game with the premise that the world as we know it is coming to an end. Jane McGonigal is the lead designer and that promises an imaginative game at the very least. If you are someone who plays games and buys into the wisdom of crowds notion, here is an opportunity to test your theories.

Web or Game? Attitude Matters

Here is an interesting comparison from an article noted at Raph Koster's blog. The author contrasts game developers to web developers. Note the bias is "game developers good - web developers crappy" but note where the distinctions are made and ask which companies and projects you would rather do if the choice is yours.

http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/10/22/cultural-differences-game-developers-vs-web-developers/

Of course, unless you have worked hard to develop the right skills, the choice isn't yours, but then ask yourself what you have to do to get hired in one of these industries if chops are readily found. In other words in an economy where investments begin to shrink and the time to profit is under more and more pressure, how do you fit in?

Attitude matters.