Hello sports fans,
I’ve just uploaded a Unity webplayer app, hosted right here: http://world.dopplerinteractive.com
It’s a little 3D streetscape that draws in all of our account’s messages from Twitter over the past arbitrary period of time, converts them into a script, and has 3D characters in the world proclaim these messages as they wander about.
There are a few technical aspects I thought you might be interested in:
-The Unity webplayer connects to a custom Google App Engine app, which is responsible for polling Twitter and storing the resulting data at intervals.
-The Google App Engine app, as it acts as an interface, allows us to minimize our impact on the Twitter API, so we are not exhausting our API calls.
-The Unity webplayer is hosted on a custom url’d Blogger page.
I hope you enjoy it.
(Twitter details and other business are on the page if you want to see yourself in there)
-JFFM
