>I remember earlier this year when I used Hypercard and not metacard.
>I ran into a hypercard games site, 2 people were creating this skiing
>game. The most amazing thing was that it was complete 3d graphics and
>they had it running around 30 frames a second!
Haha, amazing. Funny how things come full circle. That was me and Jason
Kim, a fellow who hasn't been doing too much in the realm of hypercard
(nor metacard) recently. It was a snowboarding game called "White Powder
Boarding." However, the 3D game was being done in C, not Hyper/MetaCard.
The Hyper/MetaCard project was a 2D, top-down game, that actually I have
a copy of on my hd running in MetaCard. It features live scrolling...
hmm... maybe I should see if I could finish this sometime... it was
pretty cool, actually...
>So doing a 3d game in Metacard may be possible, The hypercard game used
>an XCMD and I think metcard has the possiblity to use HyperCards XCMDs.
Actually, I guess you're partially right. In HyperCard, we tried to use
an external by Anthony DeRobertis called AnimIcon (the best external I've
seen for fast color in HC, at http://users.erols.com/derobert/AnimIcon/
) and get a semi-3D engine running in that. It would've been like Pole
Position, 2D images flying at the person, you moving your guy left and
right. If I'm not mistaken, it worked somewhat decently... of course,
not fast or slick in any sense of the word, but "worked." :)
>But who would really have the time to make a 3d game in MetaCard, if
>you were really interested use C/C++ its not worth the trouble in MC.
Well, I guess the remnants of that experimental 3D phase are in the form
of Another Fishin' Hole, the sequel to my original fishing game. Hmmm...
I haven't looked at that in a long time, either. Pics of it are up at
<http://webhost.btigate.com/~funkboy/fishing/screens.shtml> ... they're
taken from HyperCard, using the AnimIcon external. I put it into
MetaCard... it turned out quite well, except for the face that since
there's no raw drawing into a GWorld, there were about 500 images on the
card... hmmm... :)
Wow, this got way too long...
>
>Jeremy
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