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Submitted by , posted on 27 November 2004
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After the fall of Acclaim, I had a bit of free time
and whipped up this game for some fun. The game is
called CaveIn. It is based on an idea I had a while
back when I was coding demos for the GBA and I decided
to take it "3D". It is a puzzle game where the player
pushes around rocks placed in the level or that have
fallen during a panic mode to make three or more rocks
of the same color touch causing them to crumble and
score points. Besides for pushing the rocks, the
player can also give the rocks a kick sending them
flying.
The rendering uses a fairly simple set of wrapper
classes for Direct3D and the world is constructed
using 3D tiles. The 3D tiles were created in 3Dmax
and converted to the X format. Planar shadows are
using a simple method of constructing a world matrix
that flattens and skews the mesh across a plane.
Currently, the objects use their own mesh as a shadow
mesh and I am not using the stencil buffer yet to get
rid of the noticeable z-fighting. Lastly, I am doing
half of the toon rendering trick (scale and front face
culling) to give objects the outline.
John Styes
www.metrocitystudios.com
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