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Spore Creature Creator - Free Trial

Monday, June 16th, 2008

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Free Spore Creature Creator trial releasing June 17th.

Direct download: Spore_Creature_Creator_Trial.zip

Director 11: DirectX 9 + Physics

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

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The venerable Adobe Director continues it’s inexplicable reign as the uncontested practical solution for the delivery of realtime 3d content on the web. There are other solutions (Unity, Virtools, etc), but I’m excluding them from the “practical” category given the single digit plugin penetration rates.Included in Director 11:

  • DirectX 9 compatibility: previously rendering was using DirectX 7. Note that the rendering feature set is unchanged, so this is really just laying the groundwork future versions.
  • Ageia Phsyics: this replaces the earlier Havok physics engine.
  • Unicode support: makes global localization easier/possible.

Spore Release Date

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

The release date of The Sims creator Will Wright’s next game, Spore has been announced. The game is set to release September 7, 2008.