hKorez

The present

hKorez now (2003 Jul) has got a successor - ffKorez, that was made by one of hKorez developers.

Description

A group of friends-programmers decided to write a 3D engine and build a space shooter game on it. The engine meant to feature "modular desing", "OOP" and other buzzwords. Nothing is known about the game.

What's made

The engine. It had:

Modular OOP design.
OpenGL/Win32 and software/Linux-svgalib renderers.
Scenegraph with sorting by renderstates and lights, view cone culling, etc.
VIPM meshes.
Scripting language for AI (see BiTikZyz).
Unified resource management (textures, meshes, etc.).
Basic physics (dynamic octree and bounding spheres).
GUI system, mimicking Java's Swing by design.
Environment mapping, lens flares, skybox and similar eye-candies.
and lots of other stuff :)

What's missing

The game. Why: we all got hired by InteraMotion LLC and thus had no time to write the game :)

The conclusion

The engine was a good start (to make the better engine). By itself the engine is a (relatively) crap. So I don't give the binaries nor the source (unless you're really interested and will ask personally).

But we all still hope to make the game (but maybe: different time/place/engine/game). And it seems to be true - see ffKorez.

Some (horrible) pics

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