Heh, neato. :>
Speaking of doing neato stuff with games...
Our development team was approached by the PR people with a project:
they want an interactive electronic 3-D "tour" of campus -- something
which PR people can take on the road and "wow" the heck out of people
with...
Originally we figured "VRML", but then they said that they want it
for...er...ASAP, and it didn't have to be that complex, just impressive
looking...
We sat and brainstormed: a 3D rendering of the Acadia U campus which
could be constructed fairly quickly and had a good, PC-based, fast-on-
not-the-highest-end-machines, engine to run it with...
The only machines it has to be runnable on are the PR-folks laptops.
Our final proposal: let us render campus as a DukeNukem 3D level (or
multi-levels).
The result of our proposal (paraphrased): go buy the software you need
(here's a purchase order), get the permissions you need (we'll be contacting
the company today), and go with it...
the Duke engine is being used for educational purposes :> Fun fun.
Hopefully the company will allow us to use this stuff for non-profit
purposes.
Two bonuses: we get Duke in our lab, legally :> and we get to create
two versions: "without monsters" (for the PR folk) and "with monsters"
(that'd be for us :)
I can't believe we got the go-ahead...
I love my job :>
- Deb
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