The Khronos Group is preparing for the Game Developers Conference 2010. On the Official Khronos GDC Event page, a few of the sessions and speakers have been listed, as well as information regarding the Khronos Group’s booth. Session this year will cover OpenCL, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, WebGL and COLLADA. This year there will be two additional sessions, “The Best of Both Worlds: Using UIKit with OpenGL” by Noel Llopis from Snappy Touch, and “An Overview to Creating Games with Palm’s Plug-in Development Kit” by Jeff Bush, Director webOS, Graphics & Gaming at Palm.
The adoption of Android abilities into jME3 means big things for game developers using the engine and OpenGL ES. The ability to develop for many platforms with expertise in one engine gives jMonkeyEngine a lot of power.
The adoption of Android abilities into jME3 means big things for game developers using the engine and OpenGL ES. The ability to develop for many platforms with expertise in one engine gives jMonkeyEngine a lot of power.
Metismo, a Mobile technology firm, has released an OpenGL ES library for the PSP. Originally developed as part of its Bedrock mobile porting technology, Metismo has decided to release the OpenGL ES package as a static library that can be linked to the SN Systems compiler.
Esenthel Engine is a complete game development suit allowing to create fully professional games.
Esenthel Engine supports COLLADA for importing models, skinning and animations.
The Khronos Group will be hosting a booth this year at the upcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2010, to be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Khronos will also be feature four sessions on OpenCL, OpenGL, COLLADA and WebGL. Visit the Khronos Group GDC 2010 event page for complete details.
According to Bright Side of News, AMD is dedicated to support open physics standards, with Pixelux and Bullet taking the prime spots. Bullet Physics Library is an open source physics library that is now getting translated into OpenCL, thanks to the effort of companies such as AMD.
Pixelux will work with AMD to develop an OpenCL accelerated Digital Molecular Matter engine. Pixelux are the folks who developed the Digital Molecular Matter engine used by Lucas Film for some of their effects. Recently, Pixelux released an end user plug-in version of the Digital Molecular Matter for Maya.
The winning entries from the OpenGL ES Coding Challenge have been posted. Entries were in the categories of Demos/Fx, Games and Tutorials. All entries include source code under open source licenses.