Runtime Revolution Ships Arcade Engine 2.0
NEW ISOMETRIC AND MOTION EFFECTS FOR ARCADE, SIMULATIONS
March 17, 2006. Edinburgh, Scotland. Runtime Revolution Ltd, the leader in
multi-platform rich media and application development tools, and Derbrill
Software, announce a major upgrade to Arcade Engine, the add-on component
for all Revolution-based products on Mac OS X and Windows.
Arcade Engine is a useful library and reference for adding arcade and
simulation features to Revolution's rich media feature set - especially
designed to handle tasks specific to fast arcade action games. In addition,
Arcade Engine enables complex, asynchronous animation along paths -
completely under the control of the developer or designer.
Arcade Engine 2.0 includes several new features for creating compelling
games and simulations:
Ease in/ease out motion effects. Tell objects to move from one location to
another with flexible motion easing - acceleration/deceleration of objects.
Isometric drawing. Enhanced line and box objects in isometric view can be
easily generated for isometric games, simulations and charting.
Callback messages for constrained controls. Constrained controls can accept
callback messages - allowing interactive, customized visual controls such
as sliders that change while dragged.
3D Wireframe objects. Display wireframes built from 3d points with a single
call, and manipulate them along the X, Y, and Z axes.
Minor improvements to image-based collision handling, constrainted controls
and also easier to use documentation.
Runtime Revolution products allow fast visual creation of media projects,
applications, and client-server or n-tier solutions on all major operating
systems: Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris. Drag-create visuals -
buttons, windows, information boxes, lists, players and more. All
Revolution products feature easy, English-like scripting, stunning blending
and transparency effects, fast vector graphics, support for playback of
video, audio, text-to-speech, video/audio capture and more.
Revolution Media ($49) includes several focused starter projects including
a slideshow presentation, kiosk or artist's digital portfolio, and
point-and-click adventure game creator -with source code! Revolution Studio
($299) and higher add multi-platform compilation, database connectivity and
enterprise features. Learn more about Revolution Media revmedia.runrev.com.
Media can also be upgraded to Revolution Studio and Revolution Enterprise.
Arcade Engine 2.0 costs $49 or $25 to upgrade from Arcade Engine 1.x.
Anyone who purchased Arcade Engine 1.x after February 1, 2006 can get a
free upgrade.
About Runtime Revolution
Founded in 1997, Runtime Revolution focuses on bringing user-centric
software development to all major platforms: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and
Unix. The company is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. For more information on
Runtime Revolution, please visit the company on the web at
http://www.runrev.com or http://www.tenthumbstypingtutor.com.
