Aviary Launches Browser-based Terrain Generation Tool

We’ve reviewed NY-based Aviary before including posting their live product demo. The Aviary team has created a suite of online graphics tools that appear to rival Photoshop for the basics. Aviary describes itself as, "a website for artists of all genres to create, edit and share their works directly in their favorite browser."

Today Aviary is out with a browser-based terrain generation tool which looks quite sweet. Check out their blog post about the product launch. If you have the Aviary app loaded, you can click on the images in the blog post to directly edit them.

While it looks like the functionality just creates moon-like worlds, it can actually work to create some very groovy effects. I’ve embedded one of those effects below – the 3d space invaders game. Space Invaders was one of the most boring video games ever – if there was a multi-shot it would have been better. :)

Now if they could just get an easier to remember domain name (a.viary.com)…