Dig In - Why we love Spoon

We know what you’re thinking, and no, we haven’t gone crazy by declaring our love for a kitchen utensil. We’re talking about Spoon, an innovative service that offers you the capability of streaming your game instantly to your audience, whether it’s via your web site, a social networking site, or on a blog. We’ve been watching these guys for a few years and we think their tech is promising.

So how does it work? Using a browser-based plugin, Spoon allows you to instantly stream your game on any browser on a PC while skipping the hassle waiting for a download, installing, and uninstalling. While you’re playing, Spoon downloads the sections relevant to what you’re playing, and continues quietly downloading in the background as you get instant satisfaction. They feature a variety of full applications, including full games such as Alien Shooter and Dig Dug available in a few seconds. The server even incorporates machine learning to optimize the downloads based on how people are using your app ( i.e. If everyone loads level 2 first, it will optimize and prefect level 2 ). It also virtualizes your application by providing a game specific registry, file system, etc.


Head on over to get the free evaluation of the Spoon Server at Spoon.net. While you’re there, get the Spoon plugin for yourself and check out Burg, Deathball Desert, and Sector T3D.

We’re big fans of the technology and love what it could mean for gaming, but we want to know what you think. There are a couple of hitches we see to Spoon: it’s PC only right now, it also requires a plugin to run the sandbox, and you must create a Spoon account to use their service. With that being said, do you see yourself using this technology? Do you believe this is a viable service to the gaming industry that could take off? Do you see this technology actually hindering gaming at all? Weigh in below and let us know.