Voxel Game Engine test ( Super Mario 2.5D 3D )

Current state of my Voxel Game Engine and a test application (work in progress) to see if a game can be written with it. The engine now takes advantage of more CPU cores. (Such as 4/8 core Mac Pro. This video shows it running on 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo imac).
The engine (software renderer + 3D sprite engine) is written in C++ (SDL for convenience and OpenGL for final image blitting). And now works on OSX, Windows and Linux.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Super
• Mario
• 3D
• 2.5D
• Voxel
• Game
• Engine
• Volume
• Renderer

[CoderCobyWalker]

I don't understand why the framerate is so low? Are you rendering this without a GPU?

[akurodatube]

@CoderCobyWalker yes its all cpu running c code.

[zyriuz2]

wait isnt a voxel a pixel but with volume? cuz this cant be a complete voxel engine, cuz Everything aint voxels, this is more like a classic 3D engine when you still used sprites, for example doom or duke nukem 3D

[akurodatube]

@zyriuz2 the sprites in this engine are voxels (in 3d, in voxels so they have a volume), not sprites as in bill boards used in games like doom.

[viciousogg]

While the graphics would be rendered as 3-dimensional, the movement in the game would be 2-dimensional. That is what is meant when referring to a game as "2.5d".

[SlamBolts]

We need Megaman 2 in 2.5D

[TechnologicSpeed]

I pressed the space bar..

[greyspot00]

@TheDeepBass

Then nothing else happened... for 4 hours. I turned off the game.

[shmallowfellow]

wtf im i watching?!

[TheInevitableHulk]

Paper Mario 17

[paperbed]

"Oh wow, it's like that drug-trip I saw in that movie when I was on that drug-trip."

[TheDeepBass]

At the beginning I was pressing the space bar....