Voxelstein 3D!

[udm]

I'm about 4 months late in posting this, but since this hasn't even had the slightest mention here in the Codex....

http://voxelstein3d.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... n-3-d.html

Download or fail at teh internet!

 

[Nicolai]

wait what the hell

I just discovered this game and made a thread about it myself.

oh well

This game is pretty neat, there's a big thread about it over here. The guy doing the art and level design seems to be indefatigable AND prolific, so this might just be a project worth keeping an eye on.

 

[denizsi]

Here's a screenshot from episode 1's last level (Auschwitz):

It's from the gas chamber lol

 

[Nicolai]

Yeah, this is basically the game of the year.

 

[udm]

wait what the hell

I just discovered this game and made a thread about it myself.

Oh sorry. I tried searching again and the search function gave me a ton of threads with no mention of Voxelstein, whereas yesterday when I tried searching, it didn't return any info. I guess the search function is screwy

 

[Nicolai]

I posted my thread a few hours after you posted yours, so you beat me to it. Deleted my thread when I noticed.

 

[sportforredneck]

This game fails since the Holocaust nevar happened hur hur hur.

 

[Thydron]

is there more than one level? i can get out of the house ok & get a nice splash screen telling me how much loot i got etc. but cant do anything from there & have to ESC out of the game.

 

[udm]

is there more than one level? i can get out of the house ok & get a nice splash screen telling me how much loot i got etc. but cant do anything from there & have to ESC out of the game.

That's it. The game's still in alpha, and still very much a WIP

Of course, you have different routes out of the house, so it's worth playing again and again just to bash voxels

 

[Nedrah]

Quite cool.
However, I'm not quite sure where it will be going. It seems to depend a lot on the mood of a single guy, which is not the project starter but actually the only programer who has bothered doing some work for the game.

 

[mondblut]

Voxel games were breathtakenly beautiful in mid-90s. I was awed by the looks of Lords of Midnight 3 (too bad it was one hell of unplayable game). But landscapes were gorgeous.

 

[asper]

Agreed. Magic Carpet was nice too.

 

[Gragt]

And let's not forget Outcast.

 

[Micmu]

I was impressed by the nice, rounded landscapes in Comanche: Maximum Overkill. Needed a math co-processor for 386.

 

[rpgcodexusername]

I used the knife to hit the jail cell bars, after all that hard work I pressed escape to save, but that exited the game!

aaaaarrrrrrfggggggggggggggggghhhhh!

 

[LCJr.]

Sea Legends.

Can't tell it from this crappy screenshot but the waves moved.

 

[thesheeep]

Today...if voxels weren't that ugly, they'd be the future of "formable" terrain

But considering their nature, that game is just awesome ^^

 

[Naked Ninja]

Actually, Crysis uses Voxels stitched onto a heightmap for its terrain, which is how they get seamless caves and overhangs. Rather awesome tech.

 

[Nedrah]

From what I could gather from that thread, It's not actually like voxels are inherently worse for awesome graphics than polygons. Seems our current GPUs simply don't support them. I may be wrong, of course, but I like the kind of stuff that can be done with voxels.

 

[rpgcodexusername]

voxels can kiss my ass

 

[Dmitron]

No mention of Novalogic titles?

 

[MetalCraze]

Voxel landscapes in NovaLogic's DFs were pretty cool for their time. And not being resource hogs like they usually are.

 

[Castanova]

I could never figure out this voxel stuff. I get the idea that voxels enable you to render certain 3D objects quicker than using polygons, allowing games to work without the use of 3D acceleration. But how does a 3 dimensional grid of these voxels make such a big difference in processing? How does it work?

 

[Naked Ninja]

Not sure, honestly. Didn't do too much research into it beyond the basic concept.

 

[MasPingon]

And let's not forget Outcast.

Best gfx evah