Hi everyone,

Months ago I updated my NearInfinity demo, but never got around to 
posting it. It can be found here:
http://www.caltel.com/~abenge/NearInfinity.zip

It should look like this:
http://www.caltel.com/~abenge/NIscreen.jpg

There is no goal to the game. You just fly around in a near-infinite 
landscape. I would call it infinite, but even the best random number 
generators don't go on forever. The landscape is not different every 
time you start the program up. You can change the landscape's seed 
within an .ini file. To make it a little more interesting, there are six 
Easter eggs to find. They occur very rarely, and you get no reward for 
finding them; they are simply there. Look at ee.png for spoilers :) Keys 
are left, right, up and/or z. It has bouncy and smooth, but solid 
collision-detection.

If you are running Windows, have DirextX 8.0 or above, and have some 
free time, could you download it and tell me what you think? With the 
default settings it should run at 60 FPS regardless on your monitor's 
refresh rate. I kept the logic separate from the frame rate, so it 
should work on your computer exactly as it does mine, as long as your 
computer isn't really old. It will skip frames to compensate if your 
computer is slow.

I would like some feedback on a few things. What is your operating 
system? Does it work on Vista? What FPS are you getting? Do the default 
settings of 1280x960 fullscreen mode give you ultra-smooth scrolling? 
What about lower resolutions? You can change these and other settings 
within the NI.ini text file. If you decide to run in windowed mode, 
change dynamicFrameRate to method 2. You won't get the benefits of 
VSYNC, and it really shows.

If for some reason I didn't upload the program with the default 1280x960 
resolution and VSYNC settings, change the values found in NI.ini to these:
windowed=0
screenMode=2
dynamicFrameRate=3


Thanks in advance!

Sam

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