News
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(July,19,2003) Original background music is added, thanks to Steve "Fash" Harrison.
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(July,12,2003) Sound options are added (volume of sound effects and music can be changed)
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(July,10,2003) xm, mod support is added for background music and sound effects, which makes game size much smaller
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(June,20,2003) First release
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(May,6,2003) The web page is started
Description
It is a remake of the game for Atari 2600 "Slot Racers" by Warren Robinett. For me it was fun, learning and... fun again. Though it took away some evenings and weekends. The goal is simple just win before your opponents will.
It is a programming exercise for me, but it turned out as a 3D designer, 2D designer, sound designer, level designer and so on exercise. I hope someone will help me with all that stuff.Features
Implemented features:
- 3D graphics (OpenGL)
- 3D sound (OpenAL)
- background music (audiere)
- Custom levels (level design within trueSpace 6.5 or text editor)
- Particle engine
- Multiplayer game via Internet or LAN (under testing)
Future development:
- Support for better input handling
- Testing under different platforms
- Bots
- Skeletal animation
Downloads
| Windows2000/XP | Version 1.1 | ssr.zip(3Mb) |
Custom Levels
If you designed your own levels I will be happy to put a link here.Source Code
Features of the source code:
- COB loader (trueSpace format)
- Sound manager (based on OpenAL and audiere)
- Particle system
- Scripting support
Required libraries for compilation:
- sjgui - graphic user interface used in the game
- boost - thread support
- OpenAL -sound support
- audiere - music support
- STLport - standard template library (for compiling with VC)
Want to help?
There are a lot of things that could be done to improve the game, if you would like to do something here is the list of what I could think from top of my head, and if you think there is something else you can do, feel free to contact me, I will appreciate any feedback, so thank you in advance!For anyone:
- Play the game
- Network myltiplayer testing
- Web hosting
- Registration script hosting for Internet games
For programmers (see source code section for details):
- Porting onto different platforms
- Optimization
- 3D/2D data converters
- Bug-tracking
- AI implementation
For designers:
- Web-site design
- Level design (sound, graphics, 3D modeling, animation)
- GUI style
So far there is only one person on the development team, me, Alexander Shyrokov. Dmitri Lazarev was the primary testing person. Steve "Fash" Harrison composed background music.
There are a lot people I would like to thank for their help, and I am sorry that I do not mention all of them, but here they go:
- NeHe for a perfect site for starters in OpenGL
- Warren Robinett for an idea
- Lighthouse 3D for wonderful glut tutorials
- Boost developers for very good libraries
- And big "thank you" for those who answered my questions in the forums
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