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Possible Worlds is an openGL-accelerated 3D game that was created in the course of a Computer Graphics lab exercise at the Technical University of Vienna. It won the competition for the best game hands down and we originally intended to develop Possible Worlds even further with a network-multiplayer mode, more visual FX, etc.. Unfortunately, neither of us could be very much bothered to work on it any more in the Summer holidays, probably because we were a bit burned out by the great amount of work that was necessary to create this game in less than four months. Once university started again in October 2001, we again had a lot of things to do at university and could not get around to enhance Possible orlds, so we decided we'd finally open-source our work without all the enhancements we'd planned.
We regret the development
stop but we think the sourcecode might still be of interest for quite a
few people, although it might not be beautifully written at times ;) That
said, I still intend to do small updates on Possible Worlds, I'd still
love to see the caustics effect in action and I think the cockpit could
use some enhanced HUD too... and MORE MISSIONS!
A lot of people have emailed
us about implementing Joystick or mouse support or other minor changes.
Now that Possible Worlds is open source, just grab the SDL-docs
and this should be a matter of a few minutes. I don't like PC joysticks
much (they're crap for racing games) and I haven't got one, that's why
joy support wasn't in the game all along.
Actually, I'm starting to think about my next project which will most likely be some kind of a fast 3D multiplayer game incorporating sheep and a mechanical wolf. I think it should look like 42 (an openGL-screensaver i programmed for another lab exercise at university a couple of months ago, it won the competition for best screensaver ,see screenshots below :) I've already decided on a name for it, now all I need is an idea for the gameplay and LOTS of time.... ;) and yes, it will definitely run on Linux!
