Torque Slashdot Plug
by Tom Spilman · in General Discussion · 05/16/2007 (11:14 pm) · 2 replies
IBM and Sun Launch Intranet Metaverses
Cool stuff!
Unfortunately.... GG isn't linked in the story. :(
Quote:Most interesting to game developers, IBM (which also runs a private, no public access Second Life island as a development lab) created their intranet world from the 3D Torque engine from Garage Games.
Cool stuff!
Unfortunately.... GG isn't linked in the story. :(
About the author
Tom is a programmer and co-owner of Sickhead Games, LLC.
#2
05/17/2007 (10:37 am)
I'd love to join your conference, Dennis, but I'm already saved to that conference room from the meeting on Wednesday. 
Torque Owner Dennis Corp
It also links to a site eightbar.co.uk/2007/05/08/the-ibm-innovate-quick-internal-metaverse-project/ where the guy from IBM kind of explains what they are up to.
It's a shame that all the people reading/commenting this are blabbing about second life, when the story is more about in house worlds using other software. (Like torque)
Interesting stuff, but I can't see it taking off too well.
I couldn't imagine looking up some FAQ's on an 'raid controller' just to find that I need another 5 adventuring levels and a key in the shape of a dragon to get access to it =]
"Sorry guys, I can't attend that meeting I'm not keyed yet."
"LFM - 20 person conference, pst!"