Hello! A few questions

Hello there everyone, I am very new to Visionaire, but what I have read here is exciting. I have not yet downloaded the software to try it. I hope you will forgive me for the following questions. I couldn't find a search function for the forum, so I am not sure if these questions have been asked yet. Here goes: -Do I need a flash environment to create a game? Or do I just need your software, your tutorials, and my own graphics to make a game? -Can a Visionaire game be embedded in a web page? -Can Visionaire games be multiplayer? Thanks for your help! -Whystler

I can answer some: Unfortunately no Visionaire games wont run on the web , there is a Mac version underway and talk about going on to support touch screen handhelds It doesn't use Flash, but obviously you can use Flash to create character animation and sequences (frame image exports) and AVI movies clips. You can also make "stuff" happen while animation is running with Visionaire similar to Flash, for example when the timeline hits frame 20, you can make the character move, turn something one etc, then on the last frame do something else. There's an excellent tutorial by GlenFX which is in the tutorial section, also a Wiki: http://wiki.visionaire2d.net/index.php?title=Main_Page I honestly don't know if you could do a multiplayer game. I used to do flash games and the amount of bandwidth needed is very scary, so I found myself having to consider making AIR apps which kinda defeated the object!

Here I am again, after getting a little promo email from Visionaire I see things have grown a bit and this is nice. There are some nice projects on the go. Thank you for answers the questions Nigec. That was very helpful. There is one remaining question left, which is actually fairly important to me. Does anyone know if there is multiplayer capability for Visionaire? And if not now, is that a feature the company would like to add in the future? -Whystler

There are no multiplayer capabilities in Visionaire. The only thing I could think of would be to add some network packages to lua. But then you'd still have to implement everything yourself which would be too much work and probably nobody would use it. So it's not planned for the future.