Post by Segaman on Sept 16, 2008 20:35:18 GMT -5
The Worlds in Motion Summit @ AGDC kicked off with a Q&A session with Kevin Hanna, creative director for Google's Lively, who revealed more opportunities for game makers to participate in the virtual world.
During the keynote, Hanna announced that coming soon, casual games would be able to be plugged into these 3D rooms like arcades. Eventually, Google will open up an API to allow for user-generated content, including games. The timeline for this has not been determined.
Lively allows users to create avatars and interactive 3D chat rooms that can be embedded into Web pages. Although Google released Lively Beta on July 10, 2008 with absolutely no marketing, the number of users and downloads have exceeded Google's expectations. "On the first day," said Hanna, "we thought we were under attack by spambots but it was actual users downloading it."
During the keynote, Hanna announced that coming soon, casual games would be able to be plugged into these 3D rooms like arcades. Eventually, Google will open up an API to allow for user-generated content, including games. The timeline for this has not been determined.
Lively allows users to create avatars and interactive 3D chat rooms that can be embedded into Web pages. Although Google released Lively Beta on July 10, 2008 with absolutely no marketing, the number of users and downloads have exceeded Google's expectations. "On the first day," said Hanna, "we thought we were under attack by spambots but it was actual users downloading it."
