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From: robert_swan@playstation.sony.com (Robert Swan)
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.mydemos
Subject: four player demo
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 01:20:01 GMT
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ok, this is a really rough demo and runs pretty s***.

what it is:

four player split screen doom-style game

it has:
four players set up
(joy pad sharing)
point light sources calculated at the start of the game

what has still to be done
collision detection ! (you can leave the map, and go thru other
players)
clipping. Serious clipping needs to be done to get the game down to 2
frames. Those on our sort of informal mailing list might know how I
intend to do it.
player models. Debating whether to have crap models or 3d sprites. 3d
sprites prob tho cos their faster for more detail
mipmapping + subdivison probs. again to increase rendering speed.
Shoul be done after the collision detection.

Im still not sure what sort of game to make it. If you fire lots of
bullets it would slow the game down like hell. Maybe a game of tag?
(sounds crap but I remember an old 2 player game like this on the
atari st, it was fun!)

Aim is to get it in 25fps (which I think possible) and when clipping
et al is done then i can increase the size of the maps/ add gameplay/
add front end.

tell me what you think. Am I being an overambitious fool?
this is prototype for better 2 player version later in life.

Rob

file is going up now -
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~middex2/ftp/doom1.zip