From 5148ef58726f0759fb9838a3385f64f5c7b75712 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: softdorothy Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 20:10:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Home (markdown) --- Home.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index 8a93d94..5c2db3f 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -16,4 +16,8 @@ The first demo was literally just balls rolling around in a parabolic dish. When The next step was to make a game around it ... add players and give you some influence over the movement of your player with the mouse as input. Add goal posts of sorts, and opponent AI (such as it is) and you have Pararena. -As I recall there was a crude attempt to allow for 2-player networking — two Macs could be networked together and players could play one another. Buggy as hell. \ No newline at end of file +As I recall there was a crude attempt to allow for 2-player networking — two Macs could be networked together and players could play one another. Buggy as hell. + +Coarse, precomputed tables of force and position data, fast interpolation, a pre-rendered background/dish, bitmap sprites for the players in 8 or so rotations.... It's laughable that today you would simply do the whole thing in OpenGL and not only render the players and dish in real-time, but you could do shadows and use a proper physics engine to boot. + +I'm picturing in my mind now a VR version where the user stands on a platform that pitches about and controls their travel around the dish.... \ No newline at end of file