Epic’s Tim Sweeney dropped the bomb today by appearing at the Adobe Max event to show off his company’s Unreal Engine running in Flash. The event ran alongside Apple’s unveiling of the new iPhone 4S.
[videoyoutube]According to the blog post, Epic originally planned to show off Epic Citadel – the iPhone game that looked so impressive a little while back – but ended up aiming higher. How much higher?How about Unreal Tournament 3 higher.
“It turned out to look even better than the version we shipped on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3,” said Sweeney, “with improvements like global illumination, better shadows, and god rays!”
Remember, this is in a web browser, just using Flash.
The technology’s still not quite ready yet (and those thinking it’s going to be something for Android phones might end up disappointed) but it’s close, and – as the man says – developers should be getting excited.
I’d imagine the folks over at Unity might not be jumping for joy.
Via Unreal Insider.
Kennykazey
That’s unreal!
cc_star
What’s even more unreal is that Android got Flash11 update today, potentially huge, huge news indeed
Smallville2106
Interesting.
colmshan1990
Oh, yes.
Please release it, if it’s flash my computer might be able to run it.
Jakster123x
Quite a bid deal then.
Jakster123x
5 words and i still make a mistake. Damn iPod!
Big*
xdarkmagician
huge step for browser based gaming, this is going to give the free games market a huge shot in the arm. It just goes to show that gaming is starting to get to a point were you dont need to have a specific gaming rig to get a good experience. This may not impact todays AAA market that much, but the free browser based gaming market is getting a brighter future
BAZ1307
I hate Flash and wish it would die out as soon as possible.
Guess this will appeal to some people though.
Sorry, I’m just a fan of HTML5 after finding out how much smoother it is and the fact that it doesn’t bring my browser to a halt every 5 minutes.
stonyk
I’m with you here. I turn off flash as much as possible – If a web page has flash running I will go somewhere else. Just find it irritating.
iAvernus
Pretty cool…
KeRaSh
Pretty cool. I wonder what the requirements for a system are that could run UT3 in a browser.
revilo13
:O..this should be awesome