Unreal Engine 3 Now Supports Adobe Flash

Sean VanGorder

Epic Games' Tim Sweeney presented the company’s Unreal Engine 3 technology running inside an Adobe Flash-based environment during a keynote at Adobe MAX 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQiUP2Hd60Y

This is big news for game developers, as it gives us the ability to create high quality 3D games for the web, among other possibilities. Who knows, maybe we'll even be seeing portfolio's being presented with this technology in the near future.

You can read more about this, and check out more screenshots, here: http://epicgames.com/community/2011/10/unreal-engine-3-support-for-adobe-flash-player-announced/

And we're discussing it here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89513

 

 

 

csprance

*jaw hits floor*

Av7xrocker97

So many boners

keres

Oh great, now we get the displeasure of using both AS3 and UnrealScript. :P

This is cool, though. I'm eager to see if they actually did it or if it is simply a stupid dink of theirs.

dpaynter26

this actually worries me because knowing devs like ea and whatnot they're going to pull a stunt and start making you pay for games you want to install and whatnot and they be ran from a website with flash, think about it, it honestly wouldnt surprise me and i would hate that to happen

dpaynter26

"i think ill play some rage or battlefield 3, clicks on weblink icon on desktop, waits for flash player to load" GRRRR!!!

dpaynter26

still cool though

eld

dpaynter26, it doesn't work like that, flash applications still run on your computer like a regular program or game.

The big thing is that unlike some other game that runs in a browser windowrequire a plugin to be installed, but everyone already has flash installed, so any game you port or compile towards flash will be able to reach everyone.

there's no magic involved though, it is actionscript, which is an intepreted language, and anything rendered is still rendered by the gpu.

mystichobo

I for one welcome UT Live

greevar

This is great! This could be the first major step to games breaking through of the platform barrier. Flash is a cross-platform compatible application that can enable more than just Windows user to have access to PC gaming.