Portalarium

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What is it?

The Portalarium Player is a small browser add-on (sometimes referred to as a plugin) that helps bring high quality desktop gaming to the web. It is similar to other browser add-ons, such as the Flash Player add-on, InstantAction add-on, and Unity Web Player add-on. As an example, Sweet @$! Poker uses the Torque2D game engine, which is supported by the Portalarium Player, providing more powerful graphics and better performance than 2D Flash-based browser games.

Best of all, the Portalarium Player browser add-on need only be installed once. Every game, service, or product compatible with the add-on will automatically run, eliminating the concerns end-users often have with multiple installation requests.

What does it do?

The Portalarium Player operates as a game downloader and launcher that runs directly in the web-browser, providing seamless application installation and patching, much like Valve's Steam. It is very small, weighing in at less than 500KB, and only takes a minute or two to install. It is immediately available for the Windows operating system (Windows 7, Vista, and XP), with the Mac version available by Q2-2010.

The benefit of this plugin to fellow developers and studios is this: You are no longer limited to using Flash to develop your browser-based games or apps. You are now free to use virtually any game development system, graphics engine, etc., to create your web-browser games — whether Unreal, Unity, Gamebryo, Torque, or even your own proprietary code.

Great! How can I use it?

Your Engine in any Browser!

The Portalarium Player supports all major browsers, including Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7, and 8), Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. The Portalarium Player serves as the interface that allows your game to operate outside of a social network like Facebook or MySpace, while visually appearing to the consumer like it is fully and seemlessly running within the network's i-frame.

And the best part is: Portalarium is giving it away to the development community for free as part of our commitment to the OpenPlay movement. Please contact us for details.

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