Dragon's Lair 3D

3D Game Comparison - Game vs. game. No hype; just facts.™

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Revision as of 17:55, 15 February 2010

Engine

• atmospheric/environmental effects
  • water: drops
  • other: impact dust (enchanted bookcases), embers (fireballs), explosions, fire, smoke, sparks (sword impact), sparkles (magic, mana cell), steam (cauldron, grate); see particle effects
• collision detection: jump-landing Dirk's body breaks barrels
• lighting: dynamic, colored; coronas
• particle effects: fire, Dirk's charred body, dust, magic, smoke, sparks, sparkles, steam, water drops
• physics
  • gravity: characters
  • friction, inertia, momentum
  • bounce: barrel shards, sparks
• shadows: horizontal angle adjustment?, ovalular masks; characters
• skeletal animation: yes
• texture: 16-/32-bit depth
  • filtering: bilinear
  • mapping: mip
• transparency: tracers (arrows?, sword swing), cobwebs, fire, light beams, smoke, water
• other: anti-aliasing, cel shading (characters, pickups, ropes), motion blur, shaking (fireball impact)

Character

player character

• name/description: Dirk, a knight
• darkens in shadows
• facial expressions
• footsteps: metal, stone, wood
• idle actions
• moves: block, climb, crouch, drop/pick up object, jump (+: attack, grab ledge, pull up), roll (forward, left/right), run, shoot/swing weapon, strafe, walk
• view: 3rd-/1st-person (- move character)
  • pan: keyboard/mouse
  • other: character bodies fade when camera near

NPCs

• bats, books (flying), chairs, hopping creatures, knights, serpent (hydra?)
• AI: some dazeable

Environment

• # levels: 1 castle, 43 areas, 250+ rooms
• location: mostly indoors
• cutscenes: yes
• level editor: no
• puzzles: find keys, hit switches
• traps/hazards: breakaway floors, drowning, electrocution, gravity (falling), falling (bookcases, boulders, tables), fire (+ balls), shooting (books, flaming wood poles)

interaction

• break: barrels, wood beam
• climb: chains (+ turn left/right, jump), ladders
• drop/pick up: see inventory
• open/close (automatic): doors, gates
• ride: swinging ropes
• other: hit switches, swing on ropes

Inventory

• ammo, amulet, treasure (crowns, diamonds, goblets, gold coin bags), keys, potions (health, mana)
• weapons: crossbow, sword

Other

• sound: stereo (+ surround), A3D, DS3D, EAX, Miles