News

Sept 24, 2000

Finally a new version is available. Many things have been changed, including rendering enhancements, code cleanup, and menu improvements. You can now walk between zones, as well. For all the details, see the CHANGELOG

Version 0.19 is available on the Download Page.

The editor has been enhanced as well, and modified to be compatible with 0.19. Grab it from the Editor Page.

Aug 28, 2000

Ray Kelm has provided autoconf/automake scripts for use with DG. I have incorporated them into the build procedures and created a new release with these features. Version 0.18 is available on the Download Page.

Aug 14, 2000

A new version, 0.17, is out. This version adds scripted events and the triggers which cause them to be executed. Lifts and doors were also improved. Locked doors were implemented. Options menus were added for controls, audio, and video. An entirely new map was built, as well.

Grab it from the Download Page.

This version has many more feature and map format changes. The matching editor version may be found on the Editor Page.

Jul 23, 2000

Lifts and doors were added. These are basically moving floors and ceilings, respectively. Version 0.16 is released to demonstrate these features. Grab it from the Download Page.

You can view a 7 Meg mpg of some moving lifts and doors in action here.

You can view a 4.8 Meg mpg of the physics of riding on a fast moving lift here.

Jul 13, 2000

Item and Character (Mob) prototyping added. Entites are loaded from a prototype datafile on startup. Item/Char loading added on a per-zone basis. Loading commands include Character and Item placement and Items equipped or given to characters.

Jul 05, 2000

Entity model support was added. Current loader and renderer support .md2 format models.

You can view a 13.9 Meg mpg of the Perlith Knight running through a dungeon here.

Jun 16, 2000

Dynamic lightmapping was added. I have generated a 4.5 meg mpg to demonstrate it: images/MPGs/dynamic_lights.mpg.

Download the latest version, 0.14, on the Download Page.

Jun 12, 2000

I got the Win32 cross-compilation working, and there is now a Win32 executable on the Download Page.

Jun 09, 2000

I have posted a statically compiled executable of the game for linux. I am having problems getting the cross-compiler to work because I don't have a suitable opengl lib to link with. Hopefully a win32 executable will be coming soon. See the Download Page for more info.

Jun 01, 2000

I have posted the first downloadable version of the game. See the Download Page for more info.

May 20, 2000

I have posted the first downloadable version of the editor. See the Editor Page for more info.

Mar 23, 2000

I put off fleshing out the widget destruction code until yesterday. I am starting to realize how much Java has spoiled me on memory management.

Mar 20, 2000

At this point, the client widget set has been converted and expanded to use OpenGL+SDL in C++. The client code utilizing the library has been started. The client has been sound-enabled using SDL_Mixer. Work on the server code began today. The line count of the code is at 9000.

Mar 5, 2000

This document is finally updated. At the beginning of February, I abandoned previous efforts to complete this project using Java. Java, of course, is a great programming language, but its OpenGL capabilities were lacking. The state of fullscreen 3D acceleration in Java was and remains to be a nasty hack, at best.

I discovered the Simple Direct Media Layer (SDL) around this time, and decided to restart the project using C++, SDL, and OpenGL.