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Crytek and Silent Hunter Online Appearing at GDC Europe 2013

Ravi Sinha — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:40:23 +0000

Crytek will be holding talks at GDC Europe, which will take place on August 19th to 21st at the Cologne Congress-Centrum Ost in Cologne, Germany. The even will be occurring just before Gamescom 2013. Executive producer Joshua Howard will be making an appearance to hold a talk with attendees on “Better Teams Through Game Design.” With experience in free to play shooter Warface and All Points Bulletin, Howard will be discussing how to create more productive teams.

Meanwhile, Sproing programmer Eugen Jiresch will be holding a talk titled “Flash to the Max! High Performance 3D Graphics in Silent Hunter Online” in which he talks about Ubisoft’s latest naval warfare browser game. Given the limitations that browsers present, Jiresch will talk about how exactly he went about porting C++ console rendering engine in to Adobe Flash with Actionscript/Stage3D and AGAL to achieve the impressive visual effects seen in the game.

Finally, head of business development at Plarium, which developed Stormfall: Age of War, Leonard Frankel will hold a talk on “Growing a Hardcore Game on Facebook” with information mechanics, platform integration and exponential growth through payments.

Silent Hunter Online Dev Diary Explores Dynamic Campaign, Wolfpack Missions

Ravi Sinha — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:03:55 +0000

Ubisoft has revealed a new developer diary for the upcoming naval combat simulator Silent Hunter Online. Developed by Blue Byte, the video explores some of the highlights of free to play, browser based title.

As part of a concentrated war effort, with all players being part of the German forces, Silent Hunter Online’s Dynamic Campaign has players cooperating together to help unlock further missions. This can be done by completing objectives, both primary and secondary, along with defending against the Allied Forces when they try to retake theaters.

The Wolfpack Missions in particular focus on co-op gameplay, as you can invite friends and community members to cooperate with you in any single-player mission. Interestingly, the rewards will be randomized depending the help you receive due to the dynamic nature of the campaign.

Check out all the action go down in the new dev diary. As of now, Silent Hunter Online’s release date is to be announced.

Silent Hunter Online gets a fantastic GamesCom teaser

Kartik Mudgal — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:21:32 +0000

So what’s Silent Hunter Online? It’s a new free-to-play game from Ubisoft for the PC. What’s this game about? One word – Submarines.

Silent Hunter Online is a free-to-play strategy simulation game in which you command your own flotilla of submarines. No download is required; you can experience authentic submarine skirmishes directly in your browser!

Not much is known about the game so far, but the graphics in this GamesCom trailer looks amazing, and it is shaping up to be a great game.

Tell us what you think in the comments section below.