Network movement for the plazz entertainment AG realized online underwater world with new Community approach. With AT.LANT.IS has the power motion GmbH, Ettlingen a secure online meeting place for children between 8 and 14 years created, which combines communication and child-friendly entertainment in an innovative way in a community: all of the individual in OT.LANT.IS benefit services provided the entirety of the user. The citizens of AT.LANT.IS expand the freely accessible community in friendly competition with each other. By good results in the online-games can include all areas of AT.LANT.IS can be additionally activated. International teamwork and elaborate project coordination is located between the first rough sketches with the vision of an underwater world and the complex interactive experience portal, which is gone now online, more than a year.
Idea and concept for AT.LANT.IS has developed the plazz entertainment AG, while for the character design of the avatars, with Stephane Tartelin, a well-known French artist could be won. The design of the underwater environment of the community was taken over by the movement. More than 17 different rooms, which provide a home for the avatars of users developed in detail in love illustration and animation work. Also the technical implementation of the project had some challenges. After the initial concept phase, the avatars have been implemented first based on the character studies in 3ds Max. Addition, there were over 100 different items that the player for his avatar can acquire. Alone, the expenses for this run is immense: in total over 15,000 frames were exported for the different States.
In addition to the realization of the basic mechanics such as the pathfinding on basis of the OpenSpace engine, the movement has developed a very extensive and complex Flash application in AS3 for the community, realized all online games as well as a backend for moderation and administration. For the simultaneous management of thousands of user requests, entertainment AG was the core of the hardware, in close cooperation with the plazz the SmartFox server set up. All of these different tasks were dealt with by a large, internationally networked project team. More than 20 staff on this project involved only part of the movement. The decision for the movement as a partner in the development of the online underwater world was preceded by a detailed investigation. In addition to many years of experience in the development of communities and games especially for children and young people, also the technical competence was decisive for the cooperation with the online agency from Ettlingen. After a development period of over 12 months is AT.LANT.IS on August 28, 2009 from the beta phase showed up and has his locks now open to the public. The interest of the audience now speaks for the new community in the first two weeks of more than 15,000 users have registered. The movement is pleased with the plazz entertainment AG about the successful launch of a major project and hopes for a possible successful future of this ambitious project. Further information: the Internet Agency Network movement developed at the location of Ettlingen near Karlsruhe interactive applications and brand experience that inspire creative ideas, high quality design and innovative technical solutions. The movement supports international brands like for example Haribo Maoam, Sun Rice, Gubor, FruchtZwerge, Actimel, Capri Sun, Prince, tool, Kiri, toys, what is what, Perwoll, white giant and Merck self-medication. The Agency was founded 2000 32 permanent employees. Press contact: Alwin Roppert power motion GmbH of Pforzheim str. 132 76275 Ettlingen phone: 07243/2159-0 fax: 07243/2159-79 email: Web:
