FPS engine shows promise
Published: February 26, 2009
Kevin Runion has released a promising First Person Shooter tech demo for the iPhone. Called 3DWorld For Free, the demo renders an impressive 3D environment with good textures and lighting effects. The controls are set up as dual analogue, and for a demo they work pretty well. The left stick for forward motion and the right stick for look/turn. There isn’t much to do right now, apart from wonder around, but let’s hope this engine gets used for a full game some day.
Check it out here.
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9 Comments on "FPS engine shows promise"
Erik on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 6:12 pm
great looking demo, reminds me of good long hours spent with Half Life
bmamba on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 6:13 pm
look really nice!!! hope they do something cool this this engine…
bmamba on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 1:22 am
From the appstore:
“There is another developer listing this application as a paid application.all they have done is taken the unity demo and submitted it.here it is for free”.
The other version is sold 0.99$
That maybe an interesting story would you consider investigate it?
Jay on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 4:56 am
wow.. i really wish someone would make a good FPS game out of this
Dom Feeney on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 11:11 am
very promising. I can’t believe we still haven’t had a decent fps on iPhone is this the key
legend.inc on Sat, 28th Feb 2009 5:50 am
looks great, i put a post on it before this article.
Ipgn-nige on Sat, 28th Feb 2009 2:03 pm
Sorry legend I forgot to credit you. Legend posted the link on the old forum.
sio2interactive on Fri, 5th Jun 2009 12:02 am
Well, Im actually quite disappointed by this demo… There’s no dynamic lighting, no dynamic shadow, no per-pixel lightning and its made with a “generic” game engine… not necessarily optimized for FPS…
There’s absolutely no technological advancement in this demo… I think we are still really far from having a competitive FPS technology for iPhone and iPod touch…
Anybody who knows how to model a bit and bake some shadow map could have done the same thing as in this demo.
We are not even on the level of Quake3 here… at least Quake3 at some quite interesting technological advancement for their time…
Honestly anybody who read this thread can do the same thing and for free using Blender and SIO2.
boB on Fri, 28th Aug 2009 3:58 am
Hi, there is a game that is available for the ipodtouch/iphone that has support for multiplayer. It is called cube (yes it is a port of Cube), also i very highly recommend the game Sauerbraten (the same unmodded engine) for windows, mac, and linux.
http://www.sauerbraten.org/