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What's Ludiloom?
ludiloom is an online service for integrated game production and distribution, particularly suited for MMO game development.
Equipped with the OGRE 3D engine, NVIDIA PhysX and other powerful tools, ludiloom is a project of a small, dedicated and ambitious team, originally developed to fulfill their own need for an agile game development & playtest process, being an, on demand, game production company.
In order to tackle the problem of having to redesign from the ground up, every time the Client wanted something different or changed his mind, ludiloom's team has designed and developed a set of technologies for MMO game creation and immediate P2P distribution, streamlining the entire production-cycle pipeline.
These innovative technologies are now integrated and full available online, making ludiloom the first totally online MMO Game Engine!
Considering the Game Engine itself as an online service, it's possible to change, make corrections and even add new levels to a game title, LIVE, while people are playing it! This effortless change between EDIT and PLAY modes, allows for live collaborative game creation, rapid prototyping and playtesting. ludiloom approaches game development in a fresh and innovative way, transforming the entire production cycle in a single, continuous and agile process.
We believe ludiloom, is a new paradigm for game development, is not just a way to build games faster, it actually opens new avenues for innovation. In particular, the ludiloom's team is aiming for "polymorphic" games, a term coined to designate a special kind of game that has in itself the tools for players to change it - "modding" is a built-in characteristic.
Plus, with ludiloom, making a MMO Game can be rather simple.
Still, ludiloom is obviously not exclusive to games or MMO games in particular. Pretty much any interactive experience that requires a 3D environment, single-player or any game genre can be created using ludiloom.
That said, ludiloom's team is incredibly curious to see what you will make of it. Whatever you decide, we are positive ludiloom is the best choice for its development.
Who Uses ludiloom?
ludiloom online service is intended to be a marketplace for anyone interested in developing multiplayer online games (MMOG) or other highly interactive content, publish it and choose a business model in order to get paid for the effort.
Small independent studios are the key target, since no great up-front investment is needed to make a game and render it for immediate publishing and online distribution tothe Players Community. An hybrid P2P architecture allows for minimal financial delivery costs.
The ludiloom Community also gathers Game Designers, Programmers, 2D&3D Artists, Musicians and pretty much everyone else needed to produce a video game. Of course, these make up the part of the community that makes games, the other part is made up of Players and Modders in general.
Why Use ludiloom?
ludiloom is an integrated and easy-to-use online service to create, publish and distribute massive multiplayer 3D online games, embebbeding core functionality and key features to support the creative and innovative nature of its intented players and creators:
- change 3D game worlds live! - Each peer is designed to support online playtime editing of game arenas. A short-cycle game design & experimentation. LIVE!
- high scalability & availability: - Domain services easily deployed & peers manage intra-group coordination, enhancing scalability & avoiding service overload.
- full P2P network security: - Interoperable Secure Domains manage location, distribution & servicing of interactive media content across multiple domains.
- publish & manage your own games: - Artists and coders upload media components & define their IP model, creating a library, ready to use. Integrators choose the game's business model from a palette.
- get your revenue: - Manage game projects, showroom, game access/use & copyright. All in one.
This alpha release of ludiloom marks the beginning and a huge amount of development and changes and challenges has undergone. Already planned and going on is the continual ludiloom's development and new goals and neat new features are being adressed for future versions.
Key Features
- Powerful Graphics - Based on OGRE3D graphics engine, Ludiloom lets you focus on designing and managing the game experience.
- Audio & Video - Standard audio formats, such as .WAV and .OGG, are supported along with realtime video recording and playback on any surface.
- Physics - Built-in NVIDIA PhysX® engine. Joints, characters, sensors and vehicles (soon: soft bodies and deformable materials).
- Game User Interface - Drag&Drop GUI editor with lots of widgets and skining support. Fast and easy listener configuration.
- Cameras - User friendly camera manager enables you to create any kind of in-game cinematic language.
- Landscape Modeling - Instant and easy, direct manipulation, deformation and detail texture painting of the terrain, with normal mapping support. Terrain projective decals, to highlight hotspots or scene decoration.
- Architecture & Network - Firewall friendly network infrastructure, designed to support any game genre with smart, realtime network load adjustment.
- Game Scripting - Featuring LUA programming language with an extensive ludiloom API enabling you to control every aspect of your game.
- Materials - Advanced materials engine and GUI based editor with vertex and pixel shaders support. Easily setup camera, video and html renders.
- Gizmos - Gizmos to place, rotate and scale let you organize and resize, in 3D, each scene object, maintaining hierarchy relations.
- A Browser Within - Built-in web browser, allowing web access inside any game.
- Roads & Rivers - Point and click to create roads and rivers in seconds and enhance them with materials.
- Secure P2P Network - With Ludiloom it's just as easy to create a single as a multiplayer game, managing game state consistence and persistence.
- Immediate Publishing - Ludiloom uses a hybrid P2P architecture for efficient game content distribution and high availability.
- Environment - Easy environment setup, with environment lighting, sound, fog, skybox, skydome and skyplane support.
- Pathfinding - Built-in pathfinding techniques allow automatic character movement control with an interpolation and extrapolation system.
- Lights & Shadows - In any scene, variance shadow mapping, texture and stencil shadows can be cast from any light in realtime.
- Effects - High quality particle-based effects, let you create fire, smoke, dust, rain...
