People online have been describing MeditationGarden as "Koi Pond(TM) on steroids"! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=326970966&mt=8 This incredibly good looking App. brings you in an impressively realistic and interactive Japanese Garden. It is basically an "eye-candy" App., demonstrating the immense power and level of realism that can be achieve on the iPhone and iPod Touch using SIO2 3D Engine. Take a minute of your time to relax and explore this fantastic garden while listening to a smooth meditation music. The environment is fully interactive and you can adjust multiple parameters in realtime to give the garden a personal look and feel. You can adjust: lighting, fog, clouds, wind and many other environmental parameters... In addition the application also give you the opportunity to integrate different type of extra elements such as reflective water, cascade, birds, butterfly, fish, sun etc... to make the environment look even more alive. You can either navigate and explore the garden by yourself, using the touch screen to fly over the scene and look around, or simply enjoy one of the pre-recorded animation path integrated and randomly assigned within the App. The current version is 0.99$, and a LITE version is on the way and should hit the App. Store very soon. MeditationGarden is powered by SIO2 Engine, a Free and Open Source 3D Game Engine for iPhone and iPod Touch, created by SIO2 Interactive. http://vimeo.com/6012880 SIO2 Interactive also have an interesting approach compare to the other iPhone developers out there by giving access to the community to the source code of the engine along with an impressive and feature rich SDK. You can also find on the SIO2 Interactive website the FULL source code of MeditationGarden along with all 2D and 3D assets, available for a modest fee (of course), in order to help continuing the SIO2 project. And we are also planning to continue to release selected game source code from our independent productions to the community in order to help people to develop better games for iPhone and iPod Touch using SIO2 engine. Check http://sio2interactive.com for more details. On this date, over +30 known games have already been published on the App. Store using the FREE version of the engine, and more than twice as much using the INDIE version, including well known Top 10 and Featured Apps. For more information visit the game section: http://sio2interactive.com/GAMES.html If you ever wanted to create your own 2D/3D games for iPhone and iPod Touch SIO2 Engine is the way to go! You'll find how fast and easy it is to get a full fledged game on the App. Store using SIO2 Interactive solutions. For a closer look at the technology behind the hood by visiting: http://sio2interactive.com/TECHNOLOGY.html
