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From: "Michael Hough" <mhough@stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: games
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 02:13:24 -0800
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me:

>  I'll follow this shortly with a description of what I've been doing, and
>games I'm working on in various states of incompleteness, with most more
>incomplete than not; but it's late and I've problem sets due on the morrow.

Ok, it's now.

I've got a 3d fractal terrain thing; it's sorta generic--tmd construction on
the fly, a generic plasma fractal.  I'd planned to have gangs of ninja (and
samurai, monks, et al) roam over it, doing battle.  I'd almost forgotten
about that; I might come back to it once I work out 3d folks.

This last summer I worked on a Vandal Hearts clone--it was fairly complete,
with one playable level sorely in need of game balance and some decent
combat equations, when it collapsed under the weight of ugly, ugly code.  I
might still post it, if people are willing to tolerate abomination.  I'm
slowly and painfully learing about coding style--the projects they give you
in class are too conveniently laid-out ahead of time to go as horribly wrong
as the things I create myself.

Once the novelty of 3d people overcame my dwindling interest in the
disintegrating tactical game, I started work on a general-purpose 3d people
library, in hopes of making a beat-em-up or a fighting game or perhaps both.
It's mostly complete, but I need better routines for interpolation, as well
as a finite state machinery I can feel comfortable with.

that's (a large part of) my story; until later,

mike