quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster

Original post by Nali

We @ TitanCoders are proud to announce our first game: DXEncore
DXEncore is an Classic Arkanoid clone.
If you want to know more about this game, please visit our site


Nali
Coder @ TitanCoders
email: nali@titancoders.net
url: www.titancoders.net

Hey, visited the web site and checked out DXEncore… It all looks interesting, but why does the game need a Pentium 90 minimum if it''s a simple break-out clone??



Hello, Anonymous Poster, my name is Keith aka Uhfgood and
not related to titancoders in any way… but here are my
thoughts…

If you know anything about games programming in Windows you would know that using high performance counters is only allowed on the pentium and higher, cuz only pentium and higher has the high performance timers… Another reason is if it''s in any higher resolution than 320x200 it''s going to take more memory to move it, also if the bit depth is higher it will be slower… and finally there''s collision detection, on a simple breakout game you have to account for all sides of every block, even if there''s optimizations… so I think a pentium 90 is very reasonable…

Okay now my thoughts on titan coders… You guys have a promising site… And your game sounds kind of interesting
but you need screenshots (or even concept screen shots if no actual ones are available), and you shouldn''t be posting an
announcement unless you plan to have some screenshots, and/or
plan to allow us to download it… (and trust me, you want people
to download early test alphas so we can test it and give you feeback)…

-Keith Weatherby II aka Uhfgood
uhfgood@artoo.net - http://uhfgood.artoo.net

quote: Original post by trixter

Speaking of Arkanoid...I released a 3D version of Arkanoid called Trixoid almost 3 months ago.

You are all welcome to give it a spin at http://www.trixoft.com/trixoid/

Uhfgood, are you a fan of Willow? Just wondering. Anyway, I''m a bit familiar with collision detection in a breakout game. Add a 3rd dimension and you just got yourself a whole new set of faces to collide into. With certain optimizations, every face does not have to be accounted for per ball (not directly accounted for at least). Actually the way I did it, only the face that is hit is accounted for.

The lowest I ever tested Trixoid on was a P166 and it ran fine. If anyone likes to try on a slower system, let me know how it runs.

The site has screenshots to look at and the full version to download.



Carl "trixter"
carl@trixoft.com
http://www.trixoft.com

quote: Original post by trixter

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