Aves 2d Game Engine

Here's another update to the list of Isometric Game engines list. This one looks quite interesting as its web based - using HTML and Javascript. Check the Aves Engine by Dextrose:

The Aves Engine is a professional game engine to build any type of web based 2D or 2.5D game by only using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, giving game studios the power to deliver stunning games for all kinds of genres on multiple platforms. It’s in a way similiar to Game Engines on PC or Console systems but utilizes many important patterns you need to consider when working in the web environment.

see more on my list of isometric games engines.

Quick fix for Gmail Attachments not working...

If you are experiencing some gmail attachment problems and can't wait for google, here's a quick work around:

• scroll down to bottom of screen, click Basic HTML view (between view: standard | older version | basic HTML)
• now attach to your email

Its still bloody slow, and you might have to give a couple of go's but it will attach.

FYI - this works for chrome, ff and ie6 (at least on my machine)

Isometric Game Engine: Game Editor 1.3

I've added a new 2d game editor to my list of isometric game engines:

Game Editor is the open source game design software that gives you the power to create the games of your dreams, and, unlike other game creation tools, gives you the chance to get and change the source code of the game creator and design and develop 2D games for personal computers as well as mobile devices.

Vertical Airship Design - Modern Concept Airship

I've posted about Airships before - this one is quite unique in that it is vertical instead of oblong - looking a bit more like a balloon. However the concept interiors are amazing!

from the website:

Originally a self-generated project, Seymourpowell's Aircruise is the concept design for a hotel in the sky, with low passenger numbers and huge internal spaces offering room for living, dining and relaxing, as well as scope for dramatic and inspirational public spaces. The initial design proposes a bar/lounge zone, four duplex apartments, a penthouse and five smaller apartments.

Here is the video:

Beautiful Treehouse Book - Traumhafte Baumhäuser

When I was in Vienna, I splurged on this book. It contain beautiful treehouse by the architects from La Cabane Perchee (www.la-cabane-perchee.com). The book is German, but the architects are based in France. Expensive book, and couple of the houses are not proper treehouses (don't know how they got in) but well worth it if you have some extra dosh laying around. The book has really beautiful photos and towards the end it has beautiful draft drawings with rough dimensions of each treehouse. One of the remarkable things that this company designs are the spiral stair cases that wrap around the tree.

You can find it on Amazon.de. For other treehouses, see this post.

A Treehugging Treehouse

Here's a another interesting treehouse, one that hugs a tree! This was found via http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/flatpack-treehouse-is-dutch-treat.php. Here's a brief blurb:

What I really love is the simplicity, the way it fastens together with the ratchet straps; just crank them tight and they hold the thing together and onto the tree. The dutch bracket on the front is the only thing that doesn't fit this pattern, but of course they had to have it.

For more information please visit treehugger. For more great treehouses, click here.

Wien Baumhaus (Vienna Treehouse)

I was in Hietzing, a suburb of Vienna Austria. I came across this treehouse. You can find on Neukraeftengasse. This is the dead of winter, so during summer I would image that this treehouse is almost completely hidden by leaves.

See the rest of the treehouses of the world here.