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Turbulenz HTML5 gaming platform and engine released free of charge to developers

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Re: Turbulenz HTML5 gaming platform and engine released free of charge to developers

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Post by avolcano »

This is not a free engine for HTML5 games. You are required to sign up to release a game on their proprietary * distribution platform* and give them 30% of your net revenue. Very misleading headline.

From the page:

"We supply your team with the Turbulenz HTML5 JS engine and all the Turbulenz APIs, free of charge. You bring a great game that embraces the way the web works; dynamic, social, and connected. We provide engine technical support, payment processing, analytics, game marketing services, and in some cases we may fund or co-fund the development of your game.

"The end result is a direct revenue stream, full control over the marketing of your game, and your game reaching millions of game players on many different devices and web destinations. Developers retain 70% of all net revenues."

Oh, and their platform seems immediately awful too, considering that you need to sign in to even SEE a single game they're offering.

A shame, too. Was hoping for a nice, free alternative to the Impact Engine (http://impactjs.com/).

Re: Turbulenz HTML5 gaming platform and engine released free of charge to developers

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Post by asadjb »

teamonkey wrote: post #3

From the whitepaper: "As a comparison, the Turbulenz Engine is equivalent to the Unreal engine." Really?

Perhaps they were not comparing the performance, but just trying to explain their product? However, it also says in the paper:

"Originally we created a technology demo using the Quake 4 assets. The demo created an FPS on top of the standard Turbulenz Engine but implemented a modern deferred renderer in place of Quakeʼs original forward renderer. Once we had this multiplayer demo running at over 60 fps with particle effects, full screen effects, character animations, a full physical environment, 3D audio, networking and the deferred lighting solutions, we decided that JavaScript was absolutely capable and suitable for creating modern games."

Re: Turbulenz HTML5 gaming platform and engine released free of charge to developers

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Post by Malcx »

kitcar wrote: post #8
Malcx wrote: post #2

Where/how can I see a demo? And don't think you need my email or facebook login before I've seen what you offer and whether it's any good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjLaNjkYnrI

Sorry that's not a demo, that's a showreel.

This is of interest to me, but I want to quickly see actual performance on a variety of test devices I have to hand.

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