The Big Donut Engine is a Flash-based, 3D MMO engine--a social gaming platform! We invite you to beta test our demo world MySk8land. Or, contact us about stand-alone virtual world instances or investment opportunities.

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New screens added to site

Wed, 04/02/2008 - 18:11 — robbie

We've added some new images to the screenshot gallery. We've made some improvements to the general layout and UI. Check them out!

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What's New - 3/13/08

Thu, 03/13/2008 - 00:17 — robbie
  • New layout.
  • Smaller screen.
  • Faster frame rates.
  • Bigger 3D window.
  • Help button.
  • Many many bugfixes and tweaks.

    • 2/21/08

  • Another zone appears. Check out Black Flag Motel!
  • We're nearly finished with ramps and rails. Soon there will be aerial tricks and grinds. Stay tuned!

    • 2/15/08

  • Added gestures. Enter /wave /laugh /point /nod or /shake in your chat box. Select another sk8r from the Who's Here window to direct your gesture toward them.
  • Improved load times in all chat zones. Load speeds are slightly faster now, and will be improving over the next several days.

    • 1/31/08

  • New Play Window layout -- floating windows
  • New Zone: Olde Skool High
  • New zone: Skate Rink (needs work!)
  • Numerous big fixes

    • Please post bugs/issues/questions at www.BigDonut.com

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    MySk8land on Papervision3d blog today

    Thu, 02/21/2008 - 21:35 — robbie

    Thanks to the folks at Papervision 3D blog for the write-up today!

    http://blog.papervision3d.org/2008/02/21/mysk8land/

    Of course, we had a registration error this morning--which was fixed--if you tried to log in previously and got an error--please try again :)

    Something we get asked quite a bit--who are you guys? The answer is--we're big Donut Games (yes, it's a real company) but it's not our day job(s), at least not the jobs that currently put food on our tables. But we'd like it to. We think it's got potential, and we hope you do to.

    I don't think you can call it a "game" quite yet. It's building blocks.

    And we REALLY want to hear what you think. Tell us in the forums... Thanks all of your for helping us test!

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    Big Donut featured on Killer Startups today!

    Wed, 02/13/2008 - 19:16 — robbie

    Check it out--vote for us!


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    Coming Soon update for 1/31/08

    Thu, 01/31/2008 - 20:41 — robbie

    Here are a few things we're working on:

  • Tricks! ollie over objects, grind a rail, hit the half-pipe
  • Win Points/Credits in ShredSled race game
  • Spend those Credits in the store on custom accessories
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    MySk8land.com is in EARLY BETA!

    Thu, 01/17/2008 - 02:01 — robbie

    The BDG gang--Randy, Thom, Darek and I--have decided now is a good time to let folks take a peek at what we've been working on for the last few months (in our "spare" time): a scalable, multiuser, real-time Flash 3D game engine. It's pretty rough right now on the finishing details, but I think you can see where it's going. We've built a modular zone loading program, general game asset administration system (including textures) and point-and-click physics test engine.

    The core system utilizes Papervision 3D and a SmartFoxPro (demo) socket server. Everything else was built from scratch with Flex and Flash.

    We'd love to hear some feedback--our next beta will include a commerce platform (for purchasing items), a "personal space" system that allows every user to customize and upgrade a room (like in a hotel), skateboarding tricks, more minigames (with a point reward system), more character models & animations... and much, much more.

    This is really a proof of concept demo--we challenged ourselves to take a really cool, emerging technology--Papervision 3D--and do something that no one has done before: create a rudimentary MMO platform.

    Stop by our forums and leave a message. Also, keep in mind the demo is limited to 20 simultaneous connections...

    Game demo: www.mysk8land.com/beta/

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