[PSP Homebrew Idol 2] Light Cycle 3D

[SG57]

Light Cycle 3D
by SG57

This is a PSP clone of a Tron Light Cycle racing game. Objective of the game is to make your enemies collide with the trail you leave behind you as you speed along the grid in cyber space.

Features:
- Variety of different skins from a Default black grid in cyber space to the classic environment from the Movie to a more 21st century-esque metal arena.
- Variable number of enemies; go 1v1 or All v All with 4 speeding cycles in one cramped arena - good luck heh..
- Variable speed allowing for greater or lesser difficulty (and chaos)
- Custom paint jobs on your light cycle with 5 customizable components of your cycle; Hull, Window, Rims, Top and Chassis
- Custom MP3 Playback support; PSP/MUSIC and /MUSIC directories supported, 1 level of sub-folders as well

Under the Hood:
- Uses Brick's LTE Lite Mod (with a Fader addition)
- Particle Effects for explosions (more to come)
- Framerate Independent Movement
- A smooth 'chase' camera (to be used in my next project) and you can cycle through targets
- GLTron resources
- Uses PGE Wav and MP3 functionality - by InsertWittyName

Bugs:
- Weird graphical glitch in the engine itself (maybe..) that'll be fixed asap with material coloring (very bad tints)
- Particles disappear the darker you set your hull's color (bug in engine with material type parameter i've deduced)

These will be fixed asap!

Future?:
- Online Multiplayer for sure! Race against your mates across the world hah...
- Free-turning, no longer restricted to 90-degree turns
- Free-riding, no longer restricted to a flat playing field, add some hills, some loops, some jumps
- Different game types; adds some guns, missiles, blinding flashes, tar, invisibility, you name it

Controls:
~-~Main Menu~-~
D-pad - select option
X - select
O - back/cancel
L/R Trigger - Cycle through Mp3s

~-~Customization~-~
Up/down - pick R, G or B values to edit
Left/Right - chance current component color you're editing
X - save
O - go back

~-~In Game~-~
Left/Right - turn
X - Play again (at screen)
O - back to main menu (at screen)
L / R / L+R Trigger - Look left, right or behind (if you're dead you change the camera's target)
Start - Pause

~-~Pause Menu~-~
Start- unpause
L / R Trigger - cycle through your music

Download - FINAL:
http://jordansg57.googlepages.com/Li...le3D_final.rar
MIRROR
http://www.mediafire.com/?zk5lzuuuzm0

FINAL Video:


FINAL Screenshots:
uploading recent!

(there are a bit old ones)

[Xitherun]

awesomeee. Reminds me a lot of a Light Cycle clone I had on *NIX.

[Masteroid]

Very very cool. One quick thing though, ITS TOO EASY!! I win the game everytime and its over in about 10 seconds, make it a bit more challenging! But very good job, its going to be VERY hard getting a top 3! Good luck :p

[Brick]

So you made it in time :-P , i'll have to check it out once my psp is charged.

Spoiler:

Graphically, there is a reddish tint to the material colors of the cycle (will consult with Brick as to why), could be a simple variable mixup.

Without looking at some related source code i can't really tell , but it seems that you've
a material stacking issue :

For example , lets say we have this block of (pseudo) code:

material a , b ;

setup a , b

push material a
push material b
render obj a 
render obj b

Now the object a has the wrong material(because the renderer will push the last) , it should be :

material a , b ;

setup a , b

push material a
render obj a 

push material b
render obj b

(EDIT : Note that the 2 mesh materials could also be a font material or a material used for 2d static images ...etc )


or it could be related with cache ...try flushing the cache at fixed time.

edit:
I just played it a bit , and you've something really interesting there.
I think that you should focus on A.I. since there are a few issues that won't let us enjoy the game ... and that's a bad thing .

[Code Red]

Nice game. good choice as well, everyone like tron

[pirata nervo]

This is a nice game but it can get boring because it gets too easy, sometimes I just need to turn right one time and I win, I don't need to do anything at all.
But it's a nice game, congrats

[hardhat]

Finally that beta that you promised me so long ago Like I said, the AI is the hardest part -- and it seems like such an easy game idea.

[SG57]

Aye, AI is difficult (the current one was a 1.5 hour job, had to make the deadline ).

Now for a 72+ hour job heh...

[dawson345]

Nicely done!
Other things missing from the game

• L should be look left and R look right
• AI needs improving heavily, the other Tron games I played were solid
• Are the colors working? All I get is RED where's the blue guy? lol

Otherwise I'm really impressed, well done!

[dawson345]

72 hours! What kind of ideas are you considering implementing?