NEWS - Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Synaptic Soup unleashes "Cipher"
Synaptic Soup, an UK based games and technology developer, has told the press that their all in one development solution "Cipher" is now ready to be license.Cipher offers a complete technology solution for developers working on the current and next wave of gaming hardware. Designed specifically to address spiralling development times and costs, Cipher delivers an integrated development environment that provides all of the core systems required to deliver a cutting edge game in the quickest possible time and at a minimum of cost.
Some of the Features include:
Latest high performance graphics engine, ready to exploit next gen. consoles and latest PC hardware. Art driven approach for rapid prototyping and development. Particle systems for realistic fire, smoke and explosions. Animation system. Collision detection. Multiplayer. 3D Audio.
Cipher has already attracted some of the industries biggest names with NVidia recently choosing the Cipher powered game Crazy Car Championship as a showcase product for the launch of their GeForce3 GPU. Kevin Strange, Developer Relations Account Manager for NVIDIA commented, "We were very impressed by how well positioned Synaptic Soup were to take advantage of our leading edge technologies and how fast they were able to turn our discussions into demonstrable software with their Cipher engine."
Source: http://xbox.actiontrip.com/