Sauerbraten game engine

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Sauerbraten game engine

Sauerbraten logo.gif
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Example of an octree structure
Basic data

Maintainer Lee "Eihrul" Salzman
developer Wouter "Aardappel" van Oortmerssen, Lee "Eihrul" Salzman u. a.
Current  version 2013_01_04 (Collect Edition)
(January 4, 2013)
operating system GNU / Linux , Mac OS X , Microsoft Windows
programming language C ++
category 3D engine
License zlib / libpng
German speaking No
sauerbraten.org

The Sauerbraten Game Engine is a free game engine that forms the basis for the games Cube 2: Sauerbraten , Eisenstern and the commercial development technology C: About .

overview

The main developer is Wouter "Aardappel" van Oortmerssen.

Like its predecessor, the Cube Engine , the Sauerbraten Game Engine is platform-independent (currently GNU / Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows) and offers the option of modifying maps interactively. A special feature of the engine is that the maps are based on height fields and use hierarchical octree structures. As a result, the representation of the game world can be highly compressed and requires comparatively little memory . In the notes for developers, Oortmerssen points out that the idea behind Cube and Sauerbraten has always been to keep memory requirements as low as possible. Co-developers should therefore always see the implementation of new functions primarily as a challenge in terms of minimizing memory requirements. Version 1.5 of OpenGL with Shader extension is used as the graphics interface . The engine itself is released as free software under the zlib license . The licenses of the other components differ.

The engine has the following display techniques:

use

The engine is used in:

  • Sauerbraten - Single / multiplayer first-person shooter with fast-paced gameplay
  • Eisenstern - single player RPG, project canceled, content transferred to Cube 2
  • Blood Frontier - Single / Multiplayer First Person Shooter (Discontinued)
  • Red Eclipse - single / multiplayer first person shooter
  • C: About - Commercial multiplatform game development from Proper Games , Dundee, Scotland
  • Extended Deathmatch - a spin-off that paid special attention to gameplay
  • Platinum Arts Sandbox - a computer game development system
  • The Golden Coin - a single player RPG (development paused)
  • Police Forces - a relatively new Counter-Strike clone - used the Sauerbraten game engine in an early version

Spin-off

With Tesseract , one of the main developers of Cube 2: Sauerbraten , Lee Salzmann, released a new first person shooter in 2014. The Sauerbraten Game Engine served as the basis, but was expanded to include numerous functions for modern, dynamic light display. The Sauerbraten Game Engine only offers static lighting effects for this, which is particularly annoying when creating cards , since the lighting conditions have to be recalculated every time a change is made, with a long delay. A first version of the game was released in May 2014. In addition to the extensively expanded graphics engine, a focus of the game is on in-game editing, which enables cards to be created while the game is running.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cube 2: Sauerbraten (game engine & FPS) Members. Retrieved May 9, 2009 .
  2. ↑ first commercial sauerbraten licensee ... Accessed on March 23, 2013 (English).
  3. ^ Proper Games Limited - Technology. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on March 23, 2013 (English): "An evolution of the Sauerbraten game engine"
  4. ↑ Lee Salzmann's website
  5. ↑ Introduction on the official website (eng)
  6. ↑ Short test on Videospielkultur.de. Retrieved March 15, 2015 (German).