Agency9 one of 2009’s challengers
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Agency9 was recently ranked as one the 100 most promising challengers of 2009. The list is compiled by Shortcut in recognition of entrepreneurs under 36 years of age who have reached success during the year and act as inspiring role models. The Challenger list aims at acclaiming young brave entrepreneurs who are the hope of the Swedish business world.
- It is a great honour for us to be on a this list, said Tomas Karlsson, co-founder and CTO at Agency9.
- We are yet in the beginning of our journey and hope that us being on this list can inspire other young people in the pursue of their dreams, said Khashayar Farmanbar co-founder and CEO at Agency9
See the whole list at: http://www.shortcut.nu/Default.aspx?documentID=422 (in Swedish)
Agency9 on the Emerging101 list
Agency9 recently entered the Emerging 101 list.
Emerging 101 ranks Sweden’s 100 most successful young companies within technology and IT. To be on the list the company must have a product or service offering global market potential.
- Entering this list really encourages us to continue delivering our best, said Khashayar Farmanbar, CEO at Agency9.
Read about Agency9 at the Emerging 101 website (in Swedish):
Madlix – Additional Dimension
Luleå, Sweden – Agency9, a leading provider of web-based software technology and solutions for 3D applications and games, today announced their new product, MADLIX.
3D for everyone on every web
MADLIX enables users to embed true 3D-content in their own digital spaces, such as web pages, blogs, google pages, presentation pages at communities and more. MADLIX runs smoothly inside all Java-enabled web browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera and more. MADLIX also supports a large number of Operating Systems including Microsoft Windows XP, 2000 and Vista, Apple OSX, Linux, Solaris and UNIX systems. MADLIX consists of two components:
- 3D player executing on the user’s computer. This component can easily be embedded into any web page, with no need for custom plug-in or application installation.
- Web-based community where high-quality 3D-content is available for users to choose from and embed into their own digital spaces.
“By removing the needs for custom plug-in, yet offering high-quality 3D capability, we’ve laid the first bricks for designing the next generation of web sites, games and applications.”, said Khashayar Farmanbar, CEO at Agency9.
Tools and Open Standard Viewer
MADLIX is accompanied by the MADLIX exporter tool enabling 3D artists to directly export their 3D artwork from Autodesk Maya to the MADLIX gallery. The exporter features pre-view functionality as well as a standalone viewer, supporting the MADLIX file format and the open standard file format COLLADA. Users can view COLLADA files using the MADLIX stand alone viewer.
“The idea is to connect 3D artists with end-users and enable 3D content for everybody. MADLIX uses some pretty cool solutions and is based on our in-house web-based engine using COLLADA 1.4.1.”, said Tomas Karlsson, CTO at Agency9.
The Future of MADLIX
Functionalities for personification, a.k.a. “pimping” and other community-based features will be added shortly. Additionally a payment-model will be incorporated, enabling 3D-artists to sell their 3D-content via the MADLIX community site. Support for other popular software, such as Microsoft Office and other will be added at later stages.
About Agency9
Agency9 is a leading provider of platform independent software technology and solutions for real-time 3D applications and games. The company offers a real-time 3D engine called AgentFX™ and a web-based 3D solution denoted MADLIX™.
Agency9 at GDC
San Francisco, California / Luleå, Sweden, March 8, 2005: Agency9, a successful company in northern Sweden, is the first in the world to offer an entirely platformindependent 3D engine for advanced real-time 3D graphics. The AgentFX 3D engine is one of the most powerful 3D development platforms in the world.
“Agency9 is an excellent example of how high-tech research can be further developed into strong business concepts and worldleading products. Developed using Java technologies, the AgentFX engine truly enables high performance, cross platform game development.™, said Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Agency9 will be parting up with SUN Microsystems, Inc. during GDC at Moscone Center in San Francisco to demonstrate Megacorps™ Online, an award winning action game based on AgentFX™. The game utilizes high-end features like real-time shadows, dynamic lightings and skeleton animations. It can be played on PC Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Unix systems. The game can also be launched directly through the internet.
“Our mission is to provide game developers with platform-independent 3D engine, allowing them to shortening their time to market. This way they can focus all their creativity on creating smarter and better games instead of redevelopment for each platform.”, said Khashayar Farmanbar, CEO of Agency9.
Using AgentFX, new games can be directly commercialized and tested via the Internet, providing a real boost for both business and product development.
“Agency9’s professionalism and competence help us and other game developers to achieve our goals on time and within budget.”, said Nigel Papworth, Lead Game Designer at 258 productions.
For screen shots of Megacorpsonline refer to: http://www.megacorpsonline.com
AgentFX 2.1 released
Luleå, Sweden, January 17, 2005: AgentFX 3D-engine offers true platform independence, making the applications based on it directly available on Microsoft’s Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX platforms. The applications and games based on AgentFX are also immediately ready for use on web sites. AgentFX helps developers to cut their development time and costs by up to 40%, eliminating the need for redevelopment of applications and games for each platform.
“The use of AgentFX allows our customers to launch their applications and games on a wide variety of platforms, but only carry the development costs of one platform”, says Khashayar Farmanbar, CEO of Agency9.
The new version, AgentFX 2.1, comes with a totally new license form, making a beneficial offer to many SME’s working with visualisations and 3D entertainment.
“We want to empower small developers to use a high-end fully-fledged 3D-engine at a reasonable cost. When we started, our goal was to make the web fun. Now we make it possible for all developers to create fun games and applications with state-of-the-art graphics and make it available on the web and all platforms”, says Khashayar Farmanbar, CEO of Agency9.
Some technical updates:
- Rewrite and major update of the scengraph (render package).
- Improved support for vertex and pixel shaders using Cg-language.
- Resource-based Input/Out for use with Java™ Webstart.
- New input system.
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