Vastpark Features

Grow your own community

The VastPark platform is unique in offering online communities and media corporations an integrated "portfolio solution" that enables them to run multiple official virtual worlds and offer exciting community features such as user generated virtual worlds that can connect together to form an immersive community hub. The VastPark platform is the platform that offers a solution to the emerging reality where users will expect separate virtual worlds to connect seamlessly together to suit their immediate personalised requirements.

Up to now, virtual worlds and games have been "walled gardens" requiring you to download special software for each one. VastPark provides a browser application able to connect "gardens" together and enables communities to step smoothly over the "hedges". We've solved a number of the hard issues facing virtual worlds such as enabling content to be portable across worlds and be independent of worlds and enabling seamless linking between worlds...

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New tools, mature framework

After 4 ground-up rebuilds since 2003, we are obviously pleased to say we're ready (yippee!) to debut the VastPark platform. Our latest rebuild and our new set of tools are coming along very well. It's been an incredible learning curve and in the process we have matured our framework into something truly innovative.

Some of the features:

Supports a full virtual worlds strategy: Looking to adopt virtual worlds technology for your community? Want to enable your users to build their own virtual worlds out of your professional and themed content? Want to enable users to link onto your professionally made worlds with their own personally created worlds? VastPark is the platform capable of doing this. Any domain within the VastPark platform can act as a virtual universe (or "miniverse") that contains unlimited virtual worlds inside. Under active development since 2003, VastPark offers things not seen before in virtual worlds.
Customisable Browser application: Create and run multiple virtual worlds and games that work off the same browser. We are developing an open specification for our interactive media markup language (IMML) and virtual domain specification. Our Browser software also can support tabbed browsing and standard web pages using IE's engine. The Browser is built from a core set of libraries entirely separate from the user interface, which is built upon Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). One of the benefits of this that the software is easy to customise to suit a specific client requirement.
White label software: Communities have the option to entirely license our platform to create their own customised and branded software dedicated to their community's needs which they can redistribute.
Device independence: VastPark is built on a metadata framework enabling any device to be supported. Right now our software runs on Windows XP & Vista (32 & 64 bit) and it takes advantage of the power and quality of experience offered by DirectX 9 and the .Net framework. But we don't intend to stop there. Yes, we own a few Macs ourselves. Our roots are absolutely cross-platform. 3rd parties wishing to integrate the VastPark specification into their software, Flash client or mobile device can contact us.
Link seamlessly: Worlds can be linked together very easily so that users can see into the next world and move between worlds smoothly. In fact, users can even see activities of other users in connected worlds. Current link types are bidirectional and embedded links. We pioneered this back in 2004
Host anywhere, share what you want: Domains can host content and metadata fully independently because we have developed a revolutionary syndication specification called MetaWSS. What media can be shared: 3D content, shaders, scripts, sounds and much more media to come.
Cross-world portability: Our content syndication allows for content portability across virtual worlds (and it's useful for a range of other media syndication applications as well).
Meta Games: How about games that can be played in more than one virtual world at once? See Widgets for our delivery mechanism.
Widgets: Web widgets are powerful, but interactive 3D widgets are going to entertain millions. Our framework enables 3D widgets to be added into worlds at design time. Although there's much work to do on our widgets system, we can see that in the future users will be able to drag and drop interactive 3D widgets into their live environment and walk up and share a widget virally with friends. Widgets will be suitable for creating characters, running agent technologies, personalised A.I. friends, widgetized games such as seen in Facebook, etc. Interactive agencies who have a strong interest in developing such widgets and a portfolio of appropriate brand clients are invited to contact us with specific project ideas
No marketplace lock-in: Content publishers will be able to chose which domains and marketplaces can sell/share their content and they can determine how portable their content should be.
No currency lock-in: We believe in supporting communities having their own virtual currencies. You are free to create and run your own marketplace and currency exchange system. Want to be the Habbo Hotel of the 3D web? Great, talk to us.
Powerful scripting: Our Creator tool offers full LUA scripting for interactivity and game logic. Component-style scripts can be shared. They can be run server side or client side. Further scripting support is on the roadmap with other popular languages to be added.
Free download: Our browser and tools are free to download. The Creator Beta is now available (currently in limited release).
SDK: An SDK is under development. We will make announcements about this via the site.
Delivering to your favorite community: We're keen to work with developers, interactive agencies and media companies so that social networks and online communities start taking advantage of our white label solution. That's how we'll be getting the interactive experience in your hands and across more devices fastest! Power to the park!