Dungeon Master Forum

@Ubermann, I can only assume you have unlimited free time. I wish I had enough free time to finish all the projects I've ever started, it just gets harder and harder as I get older with more responsibilities. I really need to win the lottery or something, then I could retire and just build stuff to...

Pretty ambitious goals for a single man project! Good luck! Not that ambitious. The only i have to develop is the gameplay logic and textures/models/sounds/music/mapping. Rendering and physics part is already done. That is one of the advantages of using a premade engine. The hardest part for me is ...

have you checked Rasmus custom engine? I think he`s making full 3d real time DM-like game. Check out his homepage: http://www.rasmus-dev.com/ I have checked it out, but i don't like the controls. I prefer a more classic HUD distribution and mouse/keyboard usage. Even if i didn't mind that, that eng...

Gambit37 wrote:http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/217

Thanks. That's what i was looking for.

Hi there.

Any of you knows where can I read the Dungeon Master map format specifications?

I want to give support to play DM map format maps, but i don't know how they are constructed and interpretated by the game engine.


Thanks in advance.

do you plan to make all 3d ? i mean objects, monsters and so on, such as Grimrock or Entombed ? Yes. And also realtime. Graphics and general aspect will remember Oblivion. Combat, inventory, gameplay and etc... will remember to Dungeon Master. Although the game will be RealTime, the player will be ...

well.. then if you can implement 5 squares-ahead view, your engine will be very interesting ! I'm using Unity3D engine (http://unity3d.com/unity). It's a modern and powerful engine. You can view up to infinite... if your computer can handle it. I will implement a "fog" effect so you can m...

[...] Ubermann, as far as I understand, you want to write a dm-like engine from scratch for your game. But instead you could use already existing engines that simulates Dungeon Master game. I already took a look at such pre-made engines. The problem is they don't offer me every feature I want, such...

No, i read somewhere else the term Flip3D (not being that Windows thing).


I finally decided to use Unity3D engine (http://unity3d.com/unity), so I don't lose time creating the graphical output engine, and also I got a good engine pretty powerful, multiplatform capable, and easy to use.

Finally I found how to simulate a 3D environment. Simply use 3D perspective formulae to scale down the objects to simulate distance, and make them appear higher or lower on the screen. For walls' perspective, lets suppose we got a texture that will be a wall, like this, from front view: A-----------...

I'm talking about the fake 3D used by Dungeon Master and similar. This is, using 2D sprites on a simulated 2D environment. Basically what Linflas says. Or take a look here: http://blog.hexagonstar.com/rpg-design-graphical-projection <---- Around the middle of the webpage there is an article about Fl...

Hi there. I am interested in programming a game using the flip3D game projection found in DM-like games. I found almost nothing in google so i come here to ask for some tutorials or wevpages where i can find information about this kind of game perspective. Thanks in advance P.S: i dont want or need ...