Sorpresivamente RIM ha anunciado la disponibilidad con licencia libre una plataforma para la creación de juegos que no se limitaría al ambiente de BlackBerry.
En prueba de que Research In Motion quiere ganar una posición en el desarrollo de juegos y más aún, contribuir al Open Source con Game Play, un ambiente de desarrollo totalmente multiplataforma que no solamente se podrá crear juegos para el BlackBerry PlayBook, sino que estará listo para crear también juegos para el MAC OS X, Android (desde 2.3 Gingerbread), iOS (desde 5.1 en adelante [iPhone-iPad-iPod]), Windows 7 y obviamente listo para desarrollo de BlackBerry 10 y Tablet OS 2.0.
Current features in gameplay
- Written completely in C++ and well documented using doxygen.
- Solution and workspaces for Visual Studio 2010, XCode 3.2.1 and Momentics IDE’s.
- Platform-Game abstraction layer separating all operating system code from game engine code.
- Input system support for Mouse, Keyboard and Touch.
- Full vector math library with classes for Vector2/3/4, Matrix, Quaternion, Ray, Plane. Also Frustum and BoundingBox/BoundingSphere classes for object culling.
- Solid OpenGL 3.2+ (for Desktop) and OpenGL ES 2.0 (for Mobile) based rendering system with classes for RenderState, FrameBuffer, Mesh, Material, Effect, Pass and Techniques.
- Easy-to-use and efficient Font and Sprite classes.
- Scene-graph components such as Scene, Node, Light, Camera and Model.
- Binary encoding tool for creating optimized bundles for loading TTF fonts and 3D game assets supporting both COLLADA and FBX formats.
- Extensible animation system with classes for Animation, AnimationClip and Curve with built-in AnimationTarget’s on Transform and MaterialParameter’s classes.
- Complete 3D audio system with additional support for compressed audio using OGG and supporting HDMI gaming.
New features in gameplay v1.2
- Newplatforms now supporting:
- BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0 and BlackBerry 10 ready!
- Apple iOS 5.1 for iPhone and iPad
- Google Android 2.3+
- Microsoft Windows 7
- Apple MacOSX
- New shader-based material system with built-in common shader library.
- New declarative scene binding.
- New declarative particle system.
- Improved physics system with rigid body dynamics and constraints.
- New character physics and ghost objects.
- Improved animation system supporting animated skeletal character animation.
- New declarative user interface system with support for declartive theming and ortho, and 3D form definition with built-in core control classes such as Button, Label, TextBox, Slider, CheckBox, RadioButton. Also includes Layout classes such as Absolute/Vertical and FlowLayout.
- New cross-platform new game project wizard scripts.
- New game developer guide.
- New game samples and tutorials.
The ‘next’ feature branch for v1.3, v1.4, v1.5
- Optimizations and Performance improvements
- Shadows
- Terrain and Sky
- Gamepad input for Wii, Xbox 360 and Bluetooth® HID controllers
- Scoreloop Social integration
- Editor
Puedes verificar el área de Github de RIM aquí para más información.
