Anyone can take this custom 3D exhibit design and modify it to create your own design.
Check out the new embedded 3D viewer from ExhibitCore. Now I can share my 3D designs directly on my blog posts. The click and drag navigation is really smooth on this thing.
It looks like ExhibitCore has gotten the attention of the developers at Away3D, creators of the online 3D engine that runs on Flash 11. They did a short review of the features and they are linking directly to a few of their 3D layouts.
ExhibitCore Floor planner is a tool that enables you to quickly create 2D floor plans of any home or garden and view it in 3D in realtime, all online. It is flexible enough to let you plan not just interior rooms but also exhibit spaces for tradeshows and events. With the drag and drop interface designing is fast and easy. The 3d viewer makes this tool the most advanced of any web based floor planner available. Give it a try and see for yourself!
Hardwood Solitaire IV
You can move cards not just with a tap, but by employing gestures as well in this fantasy-themed version of solitaire. The game is constantly updating, and the developers are hoping to add more backgrounds, more themes, and more types of Solitaire to purchase.
Garden Dash
Garden Dash, a new iteration of the successful Diner Dash formula, looks to continue the series’ winning time management formula.
Totally Amp’d
Ever wanted to be a pop super star? XMG Studio’s Totally Amp’d is for the teenage pop sensation in all of us (though the universal game seems more geared toward teens and ’tweens).
Mad Chef
There are plenty of cooking simulator apps on the iTunes store, but none of them let you throw screwdrivers at rats. Mad Chef is a recently-updated casual RPG/action game that is wholly original and utterly bizarre.
In a major attempt to diversify, traditional video game publisher THQ is launching its Margaritaville Online social game on Facebook today.
Inspired by the Jimmy Buffett song, the game is an escapist fantasy and a major release for Agoura Hills, Calif.-based THQ. The has been making traditional PC and console games for more than a decade, but it’s struggling to set itself apart by creating unique games in a market where it has huge rivals. Games like this one are experimental, but they’re also meant to show that THQ’s management, led by longtime chief executive Brian Farrell, can adapt to the times.
One way that THQ can help distinguish this particular game from the thousand of other Facebook immatators, is with the well-known Jimmy Buffett affiliation. Buffett’s 1977 song Mararitaville was a smash hit when it came out and has now been drilled into the memory of anybody older than 40, which is one of the biggest audiences for Facebook games. The song’s lyrics paint a picture of the laid-back (drunken) lifestyle in a beach community, but it has become synonymous with the good life in paradise. Buffett went on to write novels that have also been tapped for content by the game designers.
“The Margaritaville laid back state of mind is inherently social, and this game has captured the spirit of that lifestyle,” said Jimmy Buffett, who consulted on the game. “With Margaritaville Online, fans across the globe can party together any time and any place.”
The title will be available at the outset on Facebook and the iPad, with an iPhone version coming soon. Besides Zynga, THQ’s rivals include Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive, which are also among the hardcore gamer makers. The Margaritaville game is yet another big test as to whether the upstart indies or the big traditional game makers will succeed in the new social gaming world.
At the beginning of the game, you create your character and then go into a bookstore seeking shelter from the rain. Eventually, you come across a book by Jimmy Buffett, the singer who popularized the Margaritaville song. You’re then transported to an tropical paradise called Margarita Island, where you are greeted by Captain Frank. Frank asks you to pick up trash on the beach, which starts the game play. Then you go on to complete tasks such as shooting slingshots at pirates who invade the shore.
The animations in the game are pretty good and the art is vivid and colorful — considering this is a Facebook game. In the scene pictured in the image on the right, it looks very three dimensional.The water effects are very well done, as you can see from the distorted reflections of the house and the moving fish below the surface.All the while some Caribbean music plays in the background.
The game is two-dimensional, played from a 3D-like overhead perspective. In that sense, it ups the ante for Facebook games, which are dominated by Zynga.
With the Margaritaville game, friends will be able to play and party with great music and frozen concoctions in an open easy-going world. The game has exotic adventures, customized bars and outfits, boats, and playful mini-games. I suppose you could say it’s a celebration of drinking, but I don’t think THQ is going to market it that way. While there are bars and alcoholic beverages for players over 21, the focus of the game is the “social paradise vibe,” THQ says.
Michael Lustenberger, vice president of global brand management at THQ, said that the cross-platform game will allow players to switch between platforms easily and still enjoy a high-quality, rich experience, whenever they feel like they’re in the “Margaritaville state of mind.” He also said the Jimmy Buffett brand adds authenticity to the escapist brand, taking people to a better place than where they are. The game has more than 150 quests, 30 zones and a dozen mini games.
The game was developed over the past 10 months by Vancouver, Canada-based Exploding Barrel Games and published by THQ as a free app. Uses can opt in to buy in-game premium items as well as a one-time Parrothead Membership upgrade. The iPhone app will be a companion app that allows players to access mini-games from the Facebook and iPad versions.
Most of the development team came from EA Canada and worked on console games like Skate and Need for Speed. They used the Unity Technologies Unity 3D engine to create an island with both 2D and 3D adventures.
Lustenberger said that Facebook will feature the game on various promotional games. Players can also share it with their friends. It will also be featured at various Jimmy Buffett concerts, Margaritaville hotels, restaurants, casinos and resorts, as well as cross promotions with our friends at Anheuser Busch (Landshark) and Caesars. There is a Margaritaville Online boat sailing on Las Vegas Boulevard (The STrip) in front of the Margaritaville casino and restaurant in Las Vegas.
“We plan on traditional tactics like search, social, advertising, and community outreach, as well as many acquisition and retention initiatives including Margaritaville Moments, a mobile companion application for iPhone that connects the virtual gaming world with the real living world,” Lustenberger said. “This will provide in-game rewards for out-of-game engagement based on people and players living the Margaritaville lifestyle. Players will earn badges by sharing real-world Margaritaville moments with friends, such as drinking a margarita, watching a sunset or eating a cheeseburger in paradise. The application will also feature several mini-games that directly tie back to the Facebook and iPad versions.”
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So this augmented reality technology is really cool and I can see many ways that it can be applied. This guy is using it to visualize 3D buildings. You will notice that he has a reference image printed on a sheet of paper. The software detects it and tracks it real-time in 3D space. I am not sure which software he is using but I wonder if it this can be done with Adobe Flash Player in a browser. Check out the video below.
I created this house floor plan online in minutes. I used the ExhibitCore Floor Planner to do it. Now I am sharing it on my blog so you can see how easy this tool is to use. I was not focused on the 3D aspect of the software but I can load this up in the 3D Viewer and spin around it or walk through the house. Take a look…
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3D – 20X20 Double Deck
Check out this 3D 20X20 double deck I created with ExhibitCore Floor Planner. This thing is totally interactive so you can spin it around and look at it from any angle you want. Once you get the exact view you want, just take a snapshot to save to your computer. If you switch to the 2D Floor Plan you can even move things around. It is so easy that anyone can do it… |
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With advances in technology it is now possible to design your next trade show exhibit online. The ExhibitCore Floor Planner is a powerful design tool that virtually anyone can use to create simple or sophisticated layouts of any space. You can even create realistic 3D renderings from any viewpoint you choose and share them online with friends and coworkers. Trades Show Exhibitors can go online and create a floor plans, electrical layouts and renderings of their booth in minutes rather than waiting weeks for a vendor to create them. Click on the examples below to see what others have done
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