We have touched in the past on the topic of Virtual Reality, and you'll no doubt have seen the emergence of this technology in recent years, but you may not have known it has been around for decades, and has only recently reached the point where the experience is good enough for the mass market.

The same could be true of a new trending technology called Game Streaming, which basically means running your game on a central server and 'streaming' the game screen to your local device and streaming the input from your controller back to the server.

Just like VR, this technology is nothing new and the basic concept has been around since the dawn of the room-sized mainframe computers of our past. The difference today is that we have servers and internet connections which are fast enough to deliver on the promise of cloud-based gaming and, if successful, will radically shake the foundations of our fragmented platform ecosystem.

Instead of coding your game for several platforms or using a cross-platform tool to write once and deploy everywhere, you would literally only need to code once for one platform, and then stream that experience out to any device that has a browser. Not only will this empower indie developers to reach more users but comes with the additional magic of squeezing a massive amount of processing power into the lowliest of devices, delivering the best content irrespective of the device they are using.

As a society, we are quite comfortable with the concept of streaming TV, Movies and Music and so it was only a matter of time before we added gaming and productivity to the mix.

Top app for second year running!

As Britney says……..Oops! We did it again ? Our Driving Theory Test app (developed in AppGameKit) has been named by Apple as its BEST SELLING PAID IPHONE APP OF 2019 for the second year running!

We’ve worked hard to improve the DTS 4in1 Kit app features during the course of the year, which in turn benefits all AppGameKit users.

A BIG thanks to the fantastic dev team at TheGameCreators and all those who contributed, and to the great team at Focus Multimedia who publish the app! ?

And finally………meet Jason

Jason is the youngest member of the TheGameCreators team being only 25, but has been around TheGameCreators for many years; originally joining the forums as an FPS Creator user in 2007 having had the software for a while before without signing up. He joined TheGameCreators team in 2012 when FPS Creator Reloaded was just starting its Kickstarter. He started providing updates to the existing website and forums to add features that the community had been asking for.

After successfully helping update the forums and sites to better serve the community Jason got further and further involved with TheGameCreators and now handles the everyday operation of TheGameCreators web services as well as developing any new web services that are required.

Outside of working with TheGameCreators Jason is often found gaming, as with many in TheGameCreators community, or running the Game Creator Store that sells assets for GameGuru and other game engines. Outside of the virtual world he runs one of his local Scout Groups and enjoys a good bit of camping and the outdoors. When he needs a proper getaway and a break from the British weather Jason loves taking trips to Disney World with his wife.

Here’s a picture from the latest trip he just got back from …