LittleBigPlanet 2 Beta - Old School Dungeon Crawler

Well here I go again with madness. This uses similar concepts to my pseudo-3D raycaster except the 3D illusion is even more fake and you're restricted to moving in sort of "tiles" and can only turn in 90 degree angles.

Those restrictions make it easy to make some detail though, in this sample I have 3 unique "corridor" tiles, corner tiles, and a "dead end" tile. Also a "Monster".

I had wanted to expand this into a full fledged game (so far it uses just over a notch on the thermometer so there's plenty of room for variety and action) complete with mazes, doors you need to unlock, demons you need to slay but I'm going to abandon it for now because I discovered a much better way of simulating first person view.

I'll also be making an update with my raycaster sometime in the week - I learned a lot to improve ray casting technique while working on this. This technically is a sort of ray caster it just casts a single ray against tiles instead of many rays at an angle against a surface to simulate illusion.

Stay tuned!

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[vigge42G]

nice consept :D will try this, but it seems hard to make, got any tips?

[MrFoofles]

@vigge42G I'll go into detail about the implementation sooner or later, but it's really not that complicated. :) It just activates appropriate holograms when it intersects with blocks at certain ranges.

[Crashdance22]

So you basically developed a method for moving, then turned around and made that obsolete within a few hours' time? Dang, you've been moving at light speed with this!

[MrFoofles]

@Crashdance22 lol You'd be surprised how much my ray caster evolved in the matter of 2 days. The original build I published the vid on only took 2 hours to make from scratch. Then again, I've already created a ray caster in C++ years ago so I'm well familiar with the theory.

Unfortunately my "NEW METHOD" is totally broken :( I thought I found a nice camera trick to turn my top down into full first person view but NOPE!

[Crashdance22]

Holy madness on toast slathered with extra awesome. Did you use the 3D glitch here or just the illusion of size conctancy? Sent ya another PM.

[MrFoofles]

@Crashdance22 I never use the 3D/50-layer glitch, that's one reason I'm finding so many legitimate work arounds lol.

It is all an illusion.

[xAntonNaslundx]

POW POW POW, PEEW PEEW PEEW, POW POW POW, BLUEEAAHHRGGH!

[XRvd15X]

By the end of 2011 we'll have Halo: Reach... XD

[DillonStanfordTV]

@MrFoofles Yo um i know this sounds wierd, and you probably wont, but would you add me? Ill help you out and you help me. This is an amazing level By the way, completely awsome and godly.

[madheadproductions]

this is a m&m pick

[NaokoMarie]

Foofles it is scary

[solidsnake797]

one of my favorite levels EVER! :3

[DeathDragon32]

isn't this Corridors of Madness?

[TrueGamerNET]

LittleBigPersona... :D

[daytimesky]

Has this level been uploaded? What do I look up to play it?

[fluffywafflez]

pow pow pow! pew pew pew! blargh!

[mrgaarashukaku]

@TheSackboyKing

pow pow pow pew pew pew pow pow pow pew pew blueeahhrghh

[Gibbagobba]

I can see MYST games coming from this.