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Fantasy Interactive

Submitted by on August 16, 2005 – 2:07 pm4 Comments

Fantasy Interactive knows the User Interface like Apple knows marketing. To my knowledge they’ve created four web interfaces for game sites in the past. Two of those games being: Brute Force and Crimson Skies. Which are sitting up on Microsoft’s XBOX.com website. FI has their very own interactive 3D Flash application called View Pod that they’ve developed for media rich websites.

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For Brute Force, imagine a video game kiosk presentation with holograms of rotating game characters, only in a web interface on the xbox website.

“A powerful, high-tech 3d world signifies the Brute Force website. It offers a magnitude of motion graphic effects and animations, sound effects and interactive 3d material. Although seamlessly integrated into Xbox.com, the autonomy of the application is evident.”

Crimson Skies is also a seamlessly intergrated, interactive, 3D web interface where you can fiddle with buttons, levers and thingamajigs. In the past, FI has also created the organic interface for the video game Enclave.

Fantasy Interactive have recently expanded to New York and are looking for new talent.

I myself graduated 6 years ago in Interactive Multimedia to which I still design user interfaces today. Fantasy Interactive, are you coming to Canada anytime soon? :)

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  • http://cathodetan.blogspot.com Josh

    The problem with powerful, 3D style flash interfaces is that they bring some computers to their knees.

    Which is a really sucky way to sell a game. It’s why I’ve got flash blockers on two different boxes, just so that I can surf without worry.

  • http://www.aeropause.com Shane

    I agree but that computer would have to be pretty gutless wouldn’t you think? You block Flash eh? It’s that bad?

  • http://cathodetan.blogspot.com Josh

    Both of my work boxes have issues with it, performance wise. My mac at work, for instance, couldn’t properly play that HitchHiker’s WarioWare mashup because of timing issues.

    The mini at home can handle it fairly well. Problem with Flash is that it inherents any performance and memory problems it’s host browser has as well as adding on it’s own. Which is why it’s not too bad for things like games, which are kinda optional viewing … but completely flash websites are bad calls in my book.

  • http://www.aeropause.com Shane

    Yeah Flash has it’s pro’s and con’s indeed. It’s an Oxymoron if you think of it. Flash is compatible on any browswer that has the plug-in so you don’t have to worry about incompatibility issues as a Web Developer. However as you pointed out, not everyone’s computer is up to snuff. Flash isn’t good for bots like Google either. They almost ignore sites that have Flash unless you hack it.