Pterosaur shmup - indie cellphone 3d game (Java ME)

A simple 3d shoot 'em up I made, featuring a pterosaur with laser cannons mounted on its back, fighting off an invading alien force (funny boss in star trek-esque ship at the end).


Music from the old mega drive game "Cool Spot" (vgmusic.com)

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Gaming

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• t-rex
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• space harrier
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• netbeans
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• wave
• enemy waves

[h8s2]

Oh, it uses M3G. This sucks. Nice graphics though. :(

[bytegrove]

@h8s2

Uhm, yeah, spare yourself some headaches, don't use M3G. :P

[h8s2]

@bytegrove So... did you use M3G? I'm trying to make my own 3D engine, but I'm going nowhere.

[bytegrove]

@h8s2

Yeah, I used M3G and extracted the meshes and rendered them in immidiate mode. But I had some trouble with the M3G format, and Java ME in general(the emulator just stopped working on one of my computers). And there's hardly any good documentation on M3G, imo.

[MrHoppyX]

I like how you got the ground blending together with the backdrop. Often fogging can look crappy but it really works here.

[Thecommet]

That's nice :> I like the way you mix technology with dinosaurs, especially the boss :P Has this been released?

[h8s2]

@bytegrove If you can use immediate mode, you can pretty much make your own 3D engine. I saw what you did with mesh deformations [in soulhunter], I know you can do this. Besides, isn't Java ME code similar to that of Java SE? I could imagine you making a basic 3D library for ME and SE.

[Sweemoo]

full of win lmao. nice java program :D