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.
Sympozium
Cool….but UT 2004 was better
*cough*
Kennykazey
Yeah, too bad they can’t run that in Flash instead…