Area 61 - Hunt down aliens in this FPS.

[PickleJarGames]

Hunt down aliens in this First Person Shooter and disable the flying saucer. Along the lines of effects and such, the gun and aliens are blinn-phong shaded, the terrain is parallax mapped and the environment is bump mapped. You can download it for free at http://picklejargames.com/

Made with the FreeVector engine available for free from http://www.bookshock.com/


REQUIRES PIXEL SHADER 2.0, Windows XP and DirectX9b

[Mattias Gustavsson]

I was going to try it out, but the requirements are too high for my laptop (might try it later on my desktop).

I know it's using some high-end graphical techniques, but judging from the screenshot, I don't think they are used to good effect - it's difficult to tell they're there...

This a free game, right? Then I guess it doesn't matter, but if you were selling it, I think it would hurt sales to not support non-shader gfx cards...

[lennard]

Yeah, it looks neat enough that I would download and play it but since going indie. I develop on a low end consumer box so that I don't get performance surprises as I get close to shipping.

One thing that I have wondered is if some of these high end need games could be done with sprites that are rendered with software rendering at boot or installation?

[PickleJarGames]

>>but judging from the screenshot, I don't think they are used to good effect<<

You'd have to see it without effects to make a judgement like that.

This game isn't 'high end'. Pixel shader 3.0 is high end. XNA is high end. A pixel shader capable graphics card though, costs $50. Not very high end.

Anyways, thanks for your opinion.

[Mattias Gustavsson]

This game isn't 'high end'. Pixel shader 3.0 is high end. XNA is high end. A pixel shader capable graphics card though, costs $50. Not very high end.

If you say so.

[Sybixsus]

Out of interest, are you actively seeking feedback?