PlayCanvas, the hidden WebGL editor gem

Good tools for having graphics & dev team working closely together has always been important for providing awesome digital experience! Back then, Macromedia/Adobe Flash was a 2D tool bringing together artists & coders, and that’s why it was so powerful and popular. Later Unity and Unreal Engine did the same for 3D. But those giants are too heavy for optimized web experience and the build workflow is long.

On the other side, the web itself, with evolving standards, is more powerful than ever: complex SVG animations? Hi lottie. Electron framework via Chromium enables softwares like VS Code, Slack, etc on the web. So why not having a powerful editor directly in the web and targeting the web? Here comes PlayCanvas.

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Effic’asthme – Asthma Attack Simulator

During 9 month, we worked with DOWiNO and the Paris Descartes University on a medical serious game.
Effic’asthme is available both on the Play store ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.parisdescartes.efficasthme ) and the App store ( https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/efficasthme/id1400814236?mt=8 ).

The app targets parents of children suffering from asthma to help them face asthma attacks. The app is based on and supported by a thesis of a PhD student in health David DRUMMOND. (Link to the thesis – in French )

Effic’asthme provides : a digital action planning to deal with asthma attacks, a small encyclopedia on asthma attacks, a diary, and a simulator with realistic medical behaviors and a screen debriefing the event.

In the rest of the article, I will explain the most important parts of Effic’asthme : the simulator.

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Smokitten – two apps to help prevent and treat nicotine addiction

App links and official info :

DOWiNO‘s official website for Smokitten
Smokitten iOS Android
Smokitten Park iOS Android

Smokitten and SmokittenPark are two sides of the same coin. A  Willingness for the creators of this serious game, DOWiNO, to help people who are smoking to stop and younger non smokers to never start. The former will get informed about their habit, track their progress, get notified, and the latter will be informed about this addiction and help the cat caracter to stop smoking.

Along with health professionals specialized in addiction, DOWiNO has devised a number of fun and addictive clicker-like minigames so that Smokitten players (smokers) can get through their craving period, and SmokittenPark players (non-smokers) can have fun playing the game, helping the smoking cat to get rid of his addiction.

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Click Hanger – Procedurally generating a mountain

Today we’re proud to show our work on the latest game for the Française Des Jeux (France’s national lottery game)! Made with Isobar and our friends at James Bang.

Click Hanger, the first non lottery game of the FDJ, is a mobile climbing game available on Android and iOS.

Read more on its development process below!

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Playing with AR & Vuforia

Augmented reality is one of the next big thing. It’s been present since a while (do you remember all those old cool Flash experiments in the browser?) but nowadays the tech is almost ready to blow our mind!

The Google Glass raised many criticism concerning private life but companies were very confident about the technology. Then the Microsoft HoloLens came on the market, but its pricing made it unaffordable for individuals.

During the same time, many companies tried to make AR working on devices: Google with special devices (Google Tango) and Vuforia established itself as a leader thanks to its SDKs. Apps & SDKs contiuned to improve during those last years (thanks to device performances and better cameras), but finally, this year, Apple with ARKit and then Google with ARCore show this technology was ready (on high end devices).

Maison Tangible
Guillaume Bertrand from Atelier Supersenor and 3615 Senor an artlab / hackerspace at Besançon, asked us to help him on an AR application. We’re glad to release the app for iOS and Android. Watch it in action:

Please help them to make their next collection live!

Lynx Optique
With James Bang, we made an AR app for a brand of optical shops with winning moments. After a digital form, visitors seek for a marker in the shop and once they found it scan it via an iPad. A cool Kinematic Inversion animation is displayed on the marker with the result. Here is the proof of concept:

And you what are you making with AR this days?

Filters 2D : the rebirth

Filters 2D was a good experiment into shaders land. I joined Da Viking Code in April and one of my main mission was to update this plugin and going deeper in shaders experiments. We’re glad to provide a plugin update with many improvements. Let’s go for some explanations on problems we encounter during the upgrades and fixes. Continue reading Filters 2D : the rebirth

Building a 3D furniture visualiser with Three.js

Blanc Cambouis is a company selling high end furniture to their customer. In order to let the customer visualize the product they are buying we were asked to create a custom real-time 3D object viewer, able to manage different kinds of models and to customize them on the fly.

While Integral Service worked on the web side of the product, us at Da Viking Code worked on the object viewer.

In order to meet their requirement we built a Three.js (WebGL Based) app using the Haxe language and yar3333’s Haxe extern for Three.js, we needed a modular solution to import the furniture into the engine, but also to enable the furniture’s multiple customization option without implementing new logic for each model.
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Pixi.js, Haxe and browser’s fullpage cross-platform experiences

ADN 250 is a serious game around relationship marketing, like a Tupperware meeting. You must learn about different product by using them, then you can start selling theses products to different people and convince them to do the same extending your sellers network and making loads of money.

The principal requirement for the project was to make an accessible game, without installation, accessible both on computer and device : a web game.

 

What kind of technologies would you use if you were asked to build a full-page 2D game, available on the web by PCs and smartphones ?

Here at Da Viking Code we chooses the famous Pixi.js !
This HTML5 javascript library using WebGL enable us to easily build 2D game on canvas.

Unfortunately the JavaScript language isn’t the most comfortable one to use, mistake can be made because of the lack of type and compilation. If you feel comfortable with JavaScript that’s okay, but at Da Viking Code we prefer the strictly-typed and compiled Haxe language for our Web projects :). Using Pixi.s with Haxe isn’t hard, we use the well maintained Adireddy’s Haxe extern for Pixi.js !
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Memovox, AIR still on top

Two years ago, we coded a beautiful app named Geophysic for the famous luxary watches brand Jaeger-LeCoultre. Made with the cross-platform technology Adobe AIR, and Starling & Feathers, we finished the dev diary asking which other technologies could have done the app, but didn’t get a strong answer.
Today, with Pixelfordinner agency, we’re proud to share this new app named Wake-Up Memovox, for the same client, available for iOS and Android.
It was developed with the same technology, and if it’s obvious the game development market moves in favour of Unity, AIR is still rocking for making apps! Let’s see the development part!

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Go Mark’s Run

Hi folks, we’re proud to share with you our latest game that we worked on as developers: Go Mark’s Run, for iOS and Android. Change Agency was in charge of producing a game for the French hypermarket chain E.Leclerc to promote their own brand Marque Repère. James Bang was the studio behind the game & art design.

The game mixes platformer and runner game genres. Through short levels, you have to collect as many coins as possible and stay alive. After A Blind Legend, a big Unity game made without graphics, it was cool to have fancy things on screen!

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