Dreamchess.

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Dreamchess.

Post by MrSiggler »

Knowing how many, myself included, don't visit the front page too often.. i'll post my news here as well ;)
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Phantom and myself have put a demo together of our homebrew Chess game, Dreamchess, that we've been working on over the past year or so.

It will run on the Dreamcast, as well as Windows, Linux, and BeOS.

You can get the Dreamcast version, in a ready to burn CDI image here, http://www.retrovg.com/dreamchess/dreamchess-demo.zip.

If you are interested in trying it out on the PC, the source is on our Berlios project page, http://developer.berlios.de/projects/dreamchess/

Also, we are in need of 3D models, artwork, and eventually audio/music. The game already has the theme support -- take a look in the data folder on the disc, or drop a message here if you want more info, and/or are interested in helping out :)

Edit: Here are some screenshots..
http://siggler.retrovg.com/dchess/chesspics.html

Edit edit:
Bug tracker, should your pieces behave oddly, head on over here ..
http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=1625

Edit edit edit:
Windows build.
http://www.retrovg.com/dreamchess/dream ... -win32.zip
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Post by MetaFox »

Must download.

Must play.

Now.

I've been waiting for this. Hurray and yippies! :kiss)

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So, this means you'll be able to help out some with DCRPG now, right, MrSiggler? :kiss)
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Post by Salamander2 »

suggestion:

torunament modes of play.
internet ranking.
themes to download and store to vmu.
mp3 swap disk.
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This already looks better than the commercial go game for the DC. (or is that something I imagined...)
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did i hear 3d models ?

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... uage_tools
3d graphics and visualization ?
http://www.arquiteturadigital.com
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Post by Orange_Ribbon »

Okay I must be really stupid, but I can't figure out how to download the windows version. Can someone hit me up with a direct link?
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Orange_Ribbon wrote:Okay I must be really stupid, but I can't figure out how to download the windows version. Can someone hit me up with a direct link?
u can also try run it on chankast works fine !
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Post by SeGaFrEaK NL »

Very nice! Only thing I dont really like are the player heads..they dont seem to fit with the rest.
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Post by abydos1000 »

Since you are tagetting X11/linux, any chance there will be source to build under OS X (or any BSD unix)?
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abydos1000 wrote:Since you are tagetting X11/linux, any chance there will be source to build under OS X (or any BSD unix)?
As long as the system has SDL, SDL_image and an OpenGL library it should be fairly easy to get it running. You could just download the sourcecode from our SVN repository and try to build it.
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Orange_Ribbon wrote:Okay I must be really stupid, but I can't figure out how to download the windows version. Can someone hit me up with a direct link?
There's no windows demo at this time. Maybe I'll build one later today.
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Salamander2 wrote:torunament modes of play.
Possibly in the future.
Salamander2 wrote:internet ranking.
We're planning an online mode, but we probably won't start on that till next year. (Assuming that the interest in this project is large enough to warrant further development in the first place.)
Salamander2 wrote:themes to download and store to vmu.
This isn't possible because the themes are too large.
Salamander2 wrote:mp3 swap disk.
We suspect that MP3 support would take up too much CPU time. We're looking at MOD files and CD audio as possible alternatives.

Thanks for your suggestions. :)
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Post by SeGaFrEaK NL »

Ive send suggestions to Siggler.
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Arqueiro wrote:did i hear 3d models ?

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... uage_tools
That looks great. :)

It'd be very cool if we could get some more and better chess sets in the game. I should point out though that for use on dreamcast, the models need to have very few polygons, around 150 on avarage (per chesspiece). If you, or anyone else, want to help out with this project in any way, just PM me or MrSiggler. :)
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Phantom wrote:
Arqueiro wrote:did i hear 3d models ?

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... uage_tools
That looks great. :)

It'd be very cool if we could get some more and better chess sets in the game. I should point out though that for use on dreamcast, the models need to have very few polygons, around 150 on avarage (per chesspiece). If you, or anyone else, want to help out with this project in any way, just PM me or MrSiggler. :)
nice, maybe i can help to make some cool textures too...
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Post by Jaded JAaron77 »

hmmm... I've never tried making models for a game. What format do they need to be in? ...I'm quite familiar with Lightwave but not so much anything else. perhaps I'd be able to export them...
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JAaron77 wrote:hmmm... I've never tried making models for a game. What format do they need to be in? ...I'm quite familiar with Lightwave but not so much anything else. perhaps I'd be able to export them...
i know that dc have some dxf(and 3ds ?) and mdl library...
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JAaron77 wrote:hmmm... I've never tried making models for a game. What format do they need to be in? ...I'm quite familiar with Lightwave but not so much anything else. perhaps I'd be able to export them...
We use our own model format that we call DCM. The files are created with a blender export script. As long as the model can be imported in blender, it should be possible to export it to the DCM format. Blender has many import scripts (including 3DS and LWO).
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blender rulez !

i love it :P
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