I returned from Las Vegas a couple of days ago where the company I work for, DigiDeal, was an exhibitor at the biggest casino/gambling convention in the world, G2E (Global Gaming Expo). There were two highlights for me:
1. My parent company, IGT, has a distribution and development agreement with Microsoft for their Surface computing. I got to ‘go behind the curtain’ (literally) and have a personal demo of the multi-touch technology. Oh man is that stuff cool! I truly believe this is going to be something that changes the future. If you’re not sure you agree with me, check out the three video clips here. I can imagine some sweet multi-player Flash games!
2. It was very interesting to me to see just how many of the latest electronic casino games are using Adobe Flash for the front end. It seemed like every third game I checked out was done this way. Once Adobe releases AIR 1.0 and includes Linux support, I expect this number to raise significantly. It is very cool for me to see how many very unique implementations and applications Flash has found its way into. You rock Adobe, just get me AIR on Linux soon ;o)
Betfair has just released their blackjack game in flex, and i’m ramping up my flex application for financial gambling. It just makes sense for casino companies to build nice GUIs and for a ubiquitous platform.
Left by Lordy on November 21st, 2007
It´s funny that micro$oft is using flash and not their own stuff…
Left by Niel on December 18th, 2007
@Niel – Just to clarify, MS wasn’t using Flash on the multi-touch, I was just dreaming about it. Although MS is using Flash on the http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ website listed above
Left by Nate Chatellier on December 18th, 2007