Media Magic Engineering-program Center

Director - Radchenko Yuriy A.

Sphere of business:
- WEB-servers design and programming;
- Internet-applications development;
- advertising and information support;
- Development of database management systems;
- Development of multimedia system;
- programming non-standard peripheral devices;
- goods multimedia catalogs;
- eductional systems;
- interactive journals and books;
- complex usage of video, sound, graphics, text materials

3-Millenium Game "MetaChess-3D"

"Media Magic" presents a computer game MetaChess developed on their own. It is the first version of REALLY 3D Chess. The Game, as well as its principle is copyrighted by "Media Magic".

The idea of 3D-chess appeared more than 3 years ago. But its realization became possible only when the latest powerful technologies of video processing became available on the mass market. Therefore we are positioning this game as a project of the XXI century, which is supposed to be used with powerful computer platforms including the most modern videoaccelerators with full hardware support of OpenGL.

When we speak about OUR 3D-chess, we do not mean "3-d chess figures on flat chess board". We mean a REAL 3D game in 3-d workspace.

The program "Meta Chess-3-d" transmits usual chess from 2-d board 8x8 cells – to cube 8x8x8 (according to our terminology – "ChessCube") which is represented on a display as a 3-d model and (optionally) in three projections. The use of OpenGL technology helps the user to change colors, transparency, shadowing easily. It is possible to rotate "ChessCube" to see it from different sides. It is also possible to move a point of observation (camera position) in any of assign coordinates and to see the Game field from the position of any of the figures, etc.

In the base version of our game, which keeps the classical chess dynamism, one set of "power" figures and three lines of pawns for each player are used. The positions of players are at opposite edges of the Cube. The figures are acting in vertical and horizontal planes at the same time. In such a configuration the 3-D Chess keeps the usual rule for figures moves and the ratings of chess players, who participate in the Game. But the amount of variations during the game is increased at least by 1000. It helps to avoid "theorization" and "forecasting" that we have during the usual chess match. More advanced versions of the Game will enable participation of up to 4 players and (or) increase in the amount of figures.

During the fair "ComputerExpo-99" we arranged the display of multiboard MetaChess play between two chessmasters (according to FIDE classification) on the one side and visitors on the other. There were set up 8 working places, divided to 2 100-Mbit subnets and two power servers, which were simultaneously used as working places for chessmasters.
We had good responses from specialists and many publications in the national press. Corresponding videos are recorded on demo-CD which we can send to you to allow you to familiarize with our Project in more detail..
We hope that the world will play METACHESS in the new millenium because it is really new and interesting.
Therefore we are interested in looking for a partnership for "MetaChess-3D" Project development and cooperation with a strong company which will be interested in this Project and able to make marketing and production investments in the Project.

Contact us for detailed information!