Andrea Ryan wrote:
> 
> >
> > You know we can render stuff better than that! ;)
> 
> Why not render a lot of pictures with POV-Ray and make a Myst-like game using
> the arrow keys in place of the mouse?  I would just need to have code for
> displaying pictures (PNG) and getting input from the arrow keys.  I would
> also need to figure out how to 'link' the pictures together.
> Brendan Ryan
> 
> Here's some pseudo code (which is incomplete).
> 
> Open picture file
> If up arrow key pressed
> Subtract one from picture id number (filename)
> Close picture file
> Open next picture file with new id number
> 
> To go left or right, use second id number.  The filename looks like this:
> 1st_id_no_s_2nd_id_no.png where s is a letter.

I wrote a game with a friend that was similar to Myst called the Island
Project.  We used JPEG images for the scenes, and PNG images with
transparency for the metal border around the scene image and for the
cursor.  One of the demos that I wrote even had movies and sound.  The
only problem is that I wrote it using a high level toolkit that was slow
compared to Myst when displaying new images.  Sadly we didn't finish the
game.  

I now have a lot more experience with lower level programming, so if you
could use the help creating a game for Unix, or perhaps Windows, I am
interested in devoting some spare time.

http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/island/screenshot.jpg
http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/island/screenshot2.jpg
http://www.linuxave.net/~yura/island/index.htm

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