Ideas for a simple N64 game?

it is looking good. Are you now planning an actual cours or is everytyhing still flat?

 

How many people are actually working on this game/demo? Just you, marshallh?
This is truly amazing! Keep on with that impressiv work!

How many frames?

 

just me, things are going pretty slow currently because I have several projects going on. Lately I've been working more on the n64 flash cart instead of this.

The road is now randomly generated hills/curves, nothing too sharp though. Because of the way my random number generator works, it seems to generate an on average uphill curve, which eventually will crash the game once you reach the limits of the number system XD

It seems every time I need to add another feature, I have to write another tool.

currently it is running 30fps (0.5frames per vsync). The framerate never dips and I aim to keep it that way (personal pet peeve of mine is games that have shit framerates LOL)

 

Yeah, like pretty much every N64 racer. If you can keep it at 30fps that would really stick it to those pro-developers.

 

Just set a upper and lower limit variable, keep a grand total of the combined elevations then if it gets close to either limit set a negative or positive bias. Should be pretty simple.

Also, I would change the angle of the view so it is higher above the car.

 

Or extend the FOV

 

started writing a terrain engine. framebuffer grab follows

 

That looks pretty damn good for an N64 game.

 

Yeah, that terrain looks way better than anything I've seen in a N64 game

 

I'm very impressed by your skills and dedication!

 

Indeed :nod: Will it actually look that nice while playing?

 

Yes

 

I don't believe that's on the N64! There's no fog! :lol:

 

Hi-res letterboxed versus 640x240 (double res) fullscreen. preference?



640x240. About 10fps gain

 

I am damn fucking impressed, extremely great work !

 

Hi-Rez letterbox mate! Looks much nicer in letterbox format.

 

You describe the usual problem.
Coders are rarely good at art and ive seen too many coders who writing an realy nice engine and dropping it over and over again.
This is not very productive.

On the oder side, there are many great artguys with nice ideas but no clue how to code.
For them its usualy hard to find a coder to realize there idea.
Thats bad

 

marshallh,
Quick question, what microcode are you using for this? Existing one or a custom one?

Tell me about it. =| I'm probably going to spend my xmas break working on a technical project (R3k emu) so I won't have to deal with scratching my head over art assets. :banghead:

Heh, I wish I could find some (that at least would be interested in my projects because if it's just their projects they won't make assets for what I need or they'll do them half assed). I find the only way to get commercial art friends to make anything in there spare time is to bribe them with money or games. =(

 

This screenshot reminds me of Rogue Squadron. Only the X-Wings and Tie-Fighters are missing

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoO0Cif72vY