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| | Name: Ricardo Pereira de Magalhães Cruz
Address: Porto, Portugal
Homepage: http://rpmcruz.planetaclix.pt/
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and you couldn't hit the walls? Well, I'd like to add a 3D twist to
that; instead of going through a cave, you go through a vortex, think | | | and obstacles. You might also be able to control your speed. Maybe
crossing it a bit with the now old SkyRoads.
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randomly created. Thus, you'd have infinite levels, that would get
harder and harder.
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> | Name: Ricardo Pereira de Magalhães Cruz
Address: Porto, Portugal
Homepage: http://rpmcruz.planetaclix.pt/
E-mail: rpmcruz@clix.pt
Subject: #102 - 3D Desktop Games
Title: Vortex
Description
Do you remember those old games where you'd travel through a top-view cave-maze
and you couldn't hit the walls? Well, I'd like to add a 3D twist to
that; instead of going through a cave, you go through a vortex, think
in a circular tunnel, where you have to avoid obstacles, and grabbing
bonus.
You might also have the ability to jump, through holes in the vortex
and obstacles. You might also be able to control your speed. Maybe
crossing it a bit with the now old SkyRoads.
This mockup might clarify things in case I didn't manage to very well.
One of the advantages of such a game is that the tunnel could be
randomly created. Thus, you'd have infinite levels, that would get
harder and harder.
Being a desktop game, mouse playability should be taken in
consideration, and I think it would work just fine. Mouse movement
would be equivalent to the arrows, and one of the buttons could be used
for jump. Left and right movements should be balanced, so there
shouldn't be a problem of the player running out of table below the
mouse. Controlling speed moving the mouse up and down should work fine,
but maybe using the scroll wheel might be better, or just avoid the
need of speeding up or down when using the mouse.
I don't think there would be a problem of having an action game
distributed in a desktop. Microsoft, for one, didn't find a problem
distributing Pinball with Windows NT. And several vendors ship tetris
and breakouts clones with desktops.
Benefits for the LG3D? users
They would get an exciting and addictive fun game. Also, the
environment of the game (the space) is great for graphical effects. I
would like to have lighting, translucent and reflective tunnel tiles,
as well as parallax effects.
Approximate Shedule
The development path cutted into ordered steps that should take one to two week each.
- Make of the circular tunnel structure together with a hard coded
level, which would be rendered to the screen with the ability to go
back and further, and rotate the tunnel.
- Produce the space ship artwork. Add it to the screen and make it
controllable through the keyboard with movement physics. It can fall on
holes.
- Add 3D obstacles support. Produce artwork for explosion. Add the
ability to jump and make space ship blowing up when colliding with an
obstacle upfront.
- Create an algorithm for the automatic creation of the levels. Add
an interface that shows some information (like scores), allows for
pausing and let's user setup difficulty, and see high score and help
(maybe through a menu).
- Eye candy. Tunnel tiles should be translucent and reflect the
player. Some lighting effects of when going through special tiles.
Render background with stars and celestial bodies, with a parallax
effect.
Background
Skills:
I've good knowledge of both C++ and Java (dunno the language you might
want). I've done some basic stuff in OpenGL?; you may see one in my
homepage pointed below. But I must be honest and say I'm not very
comfortable with it. Though I'm very motivated, and I am also a fast
learner.
About me:
My name is Ricardo Cruz, I'm 20 years and I'm in my 2nd year of college for a computer science degree.
I love programming, and I am knowledgeable of a few programming
languages, like C, C++, Python, Java, Haskell and Bash, as well as
libraries like KDE/Qt, wxWidgets, SDL, OpenGL?, as well as the C POSIX
system libraries.
Some basic stuff that I've done can be found in my webpage:
like a bytecode language compiler/interpreter, a shell command
interpreter, an advanced calculator, Haskell bindings and a few simple
games.
I've participated in some OSS game development. From sending patches, like AI support in Jump'n Bump, to being one of the main programmers in SuperTux, which is distributed in a few distributions. |
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