Remember Flash? Yeah, that thing that let you have nice animations on your website and play small games or animated movies. Well, we’ll get Unreal Engine running on it.
That’s what Epic Games has presented in Los Angeles at the Adobe Max event, showing the audience a fully playable level from Unreal Tournament 3 and it turned out to look even better than the version shipped on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with improvements like global illumination, better shadows, and god rays! All in a web browser, running Flash. Yeah.
While there is no word on when this technology will hit the market, we can be sure that we should expect some browser games that will actually wow us with the graphics much more than any of the games on Facebook have so far.
Despite these incredible news I cannot help but worry about multiplayer – Flash isn’t known for the best netcode around – the multiplayer games are often laggy or prone to disconnections. Maybe that’s the next step.