DX Studio News

GameSplice 2011 Original Game Contest

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

GameSplice Games have officially announced their first annual "Original Game Contest" with a theme for this year of "Action and Adventure".

Prizes totalling over $1,000 are up for grabs and winning game entries will be showcased at GameSplice.com.

The contest is open to anyone developing with DX Studio v3.2.72 (or higher) and runs from now until November 1st 2011.

Full details of the contest can be found at the GameSplice website.

Worldweaver Carbon Home Page Arrived

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The new landing page for Worldweaver Carbon (the successor to DX Studio) is up, and shows the new Carbon logo that will be applied to all the cross platform tools.

As DX Studio had a strong DirectX reference, the variety of APIs used in the cross platform tools meant a new name was more suitable.

The full site will appear here on launch, but we'll post sneak peaks and screenshots in the social media forums too (see the new home page for links).

Worldweaver Carbon Home Page

New LinkedIn and Facebook groups

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

As part of our move away from newsletter emails towards faster and more modern community tools, we've now got two new groups on LinkedIn and Facebook available to join...

Worldweaver Apps and Games - LinkedIn Group

Worldweaver Apps and Games - Facebook Group

We'll be keeping these new channels under review for popularity, so please do join up if you'd like to get the latest news or join any discussions on those sites.

We'll also be updating our Twitter feed more often too, with quick bits of news on plans, releases and updgrades:-

Twitter

And/or you could give us a Facebook thumbs up here:-

DX Studio Carbon To Support WebGL

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that DX Studio Carbon (v4) will include a build option to WebGL.

Confirmation by key software and hardware vendors that WebGL will be supported on all platforms (including mobile) has shifted our focus to this technology over per-platform plugin based players.

This means that at last developers will be able to publish truly cross-platform 3D for all without plugins, and we think DX Studio will be well placed as a middleware tool to boost productivity in building games and apps.

The Windows exe based player will remain for simulation or non-web tools, but for all other output we'll be recommending publishing to HTML5+WebGL.

Hopefully this news will help build the momentum of WebGL further to ensure it's fully implemented in IE10 - all other browsers will have full support this year. IE9 can be made to display WebGL currently by a Google Chrome Tab plugin, but built in support is what we really need.

If you have Google Chrome, check out this example of what can be done now in WebGL Google Body.

You can comment on and discuss on this story on the Announcements forum page here

Worldweaver Kindle Engine Powers Interactive Fiction

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Worldweaver are bringing the original Fighting Fantasy series of game books to the Kindle, starting with "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain".

It's available to buy as Kindle Active Content (currently US only) from the Kindle Store on Amazon.

As a developer we are looking to release high quality titles on all new platforms that we support to demonstrate and promote what can be achieved with our tools and technologies.

You can find out more about this project on the Worldweaver site.

DX Studio Based Game on Amazon

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The DX Studio based game by forum user Mr Adventures is now on Amazon and available for pre-order.

He has also been kind enough to send through 2 copies of the game, which we'll be including as prizes in the upcoming DX Studio v4 Competiton. More details on that soon.

Baron Wittard - Nemesis of Ragnarok

10000th User Day

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Today our 10,000th DX Studio user has registered, which although fundamentally a mere curiosity of base 10 numbers, we think represents a milestone in the product history. :-)

Rather than just issue a voucher to that user though, we've decided to offer everyone a 20% off anything DX Studio voucher - new licenses, renewals, etc. for the next 24 hours. Even for those of you who have just bought a license, you could still benefit by adding +1yr support and updates at the 20% off rate (which is always added to the expiry of the existing period).

To take advantage, add this voucher code during checkout...

DXVC385464

...and you'll get 20% off your entire basket, for as many uses as you like.

All renewals and new licenses will include a free upgrade to DX Studio Carbon (v4) as soon as it's available.

Many thanks again to everyone in the community for your support.

DX Studio Team

v4 Premium Content Preview

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

With the upcoming v4 release is a new stack of premium content, available to download and purchase directly in the editor via the new DXCredits system.

You can take a peek at some of the models that will be available now in this forum thread.

More models and other content will be released on a monthly basis, and will be announced in the new monthly DX Studio Newsletter coming with the v4 release.

v4 Sneak Peak Released

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We've released some shots of the new v4 editor in action.

v4 Editor Sneak Peak

Stay tuned for more info and videos of the cross platform parts, and the first betas...

DX Studio Competitive Upgrade Available

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

For the rest of November we're offering a 25% discount off all new DX Studio licenses for those looking to join us from other engines.

To qualify, please email us (support at worldweaver dot com) a receipt for an engine and we'll send you back a voucher code to enter during checkout.

As part of the year of free support and updates, you'll also be receiving v4 (cross platform, step debugger, deferred lighting) without further charge as soon as it's ready.

Many thanks for taking an interest in DX Studio and our community! :-)

DX Studio Team