Big Donut Games has built a scalable, real-time 3D MMO platform based in Flash (Flash, Flex, Papervision3D and socket server). You can check out the demo platform, a virtual skateboarding world called MySk8land.com. Big Donut Games' 3D MMO game engine is completely Flash-based--no user downloads required--and it's designed to be quickly and easily customized. On the back-end are robust reporting and administration tools, a proprietary Flash physics engine and level/zone editing tools. Coupled with e-commerce and micro-transactions, integrated advertising and personalization--this is indeed a killer Flash app. What's more, Big Donut Games' co-founder is based in Shanghai and is strategically poised to introduce the world's largest single audience to Flash-based multiplayer gaming with a variety of revenue models: advertising, custom instances, subscription and Free/pay-for-items. Big Donut was founded by digital marketing and development professionals with an eye toward platform licensing and creating a stand-along network of Flash-based MMO games.
“Big Donut Games is making a web-based, Flash multiplayer platform. Always fun, always free to play. Beneath the hood, The Big Donut Engine is a portable, multiplayer Flash engine that's completely customizable. Contact us about in-game advertising opportunities and stand-alone virtual world instances.”
3D MMO's need no longer to be the domain of large game developers requiring subscriptions and lengthy client downloads. For brands and advertisers, it means low-cost, quick deployment of virtual worlds--completely skinned to whatever the creative requirements may be--all rendered in ubiquitous Flash. Think Club Penguin--only an entire network of quickly and easily produced genres with proved online gaming revenue models in both the US and Asia.
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