Icarus Studios has announced that they are working to bring a version of their Virtual Worlds Platform to the iPhone. The studio generally produces virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games, like Fallen Earth. Basically, what this will mean to those iPhone gamers out there is that this may open the window for some pretty impressive games coming your way. The Icarus Platform demo is said to include a 360-degree panoramic tour of a virtual world, controlled via the accelerometer.
We are committed to porting our platform to established and emerging devices. The iPhone offers a tremendous opportunity to extend Virtual Worlds and MMOGs to mobile devices in a visually rich and intuitive device,” said James Hettinger, Chief Executive Officer, Icarus Studios
The company is planning to showcase a demo of their 3D platform prototype running on an iPhone at the Austin Game Developer Conference, which began today. The Icarus 3D iPhone client is set to officially launch at some point in Q1 2009.
Check out the full press release after the jump.
ICARUS STUDIOS PORTS VIRTUAL WORLDS PLATFORM TO IPHONE; FIRST SHOWING AT AUSTIN GDC
GAME DEVELOPER CONFERENCE, AUSTIN, TX — SEPTEMBER 15, 2008 – Icarus Studios, which provides a turnkey solution for creating virtual worlds, MMOGs, and serious games, has announced the expansion of their development platform to the iPhone. Icarus will demo a prototype of their 3D platform running on the iPhone for the first time in booth 316 at the Austin Game Developer Conference where it will also showcase its RealTime™ online development suite and the Icarus 3D and Flash based client software.
“We are committed to porting our platform to established and emerging devices. The iPhone offers a tremendous opportunity to extend Virtual Worlds and MMOGs to mobile devices in a visually rich and intuitive device,” said James Hettinger, Chief Executive Officer, Icarus Studios.
The prototype demo on the iPhone extension will include a 360-degree panoramic tour of a sample virtual world location, with navigation ability through the accelerometer. The official launch of the Icarus 3D iPhone client will be in Q1 2009.
Built by a team of industry veterans, the Icarus suite was designed to meet the specific needs of next-generation Virtual Worlds and MMOGs supporting functionality such as user generated content, in-world social and entertainment activities, scriptable AIs, dynamic game systems, diverse revenue models, and in-world profiled marketing on a secure and scaleable platform.
The Icarus platform incorporates a number of best of breed technologies such as Vivox® for VoIP, Ageia for its physics engine PhysX™, IDV for SpeedTree®, and OC3 for avatar speech and facial expressions.
For more information visit http://www.icarusstudios.com.
RealTime is a trademark of Icarus Studios. Vivox is a registered trademark of Vivox, Inc. PhysX is a trademark of Ageia Technologies, Inc. SpeedTree is a registered trademark of IDV, Inc.
