[Entry] Land of parademes

[retep998]

• Game Title - Land of Parademes
• Description of game - A text-based dungeon-crawler-ish roguelike-ish game full of memes and parodies and outright crap. All interaction is performed by typing in commands. All the text uses unifont, a bitmap font which covers the entire Unicode 5.1 Basic Multilingual Plane. Color is purely monochrome (green and black by default, although this can be modified easily). The world is a large 3d grid, and you can move from cell to cell in all 6 directions. Details regarding the actual plot will remain a secret until the game is ready for release.
• Tools used in development - Visual Studio, C++, SDL
• List of links - This thread?
• List of teammates - Peter (Retep998) Project lead, head programmer, and content creator
• List of Media
  
  • First Trailer (no gameplay at all)
  • Basic Text Rendering
  • The editor!
• List of Downloads - Land of Parademes on Github

[retep998]

Progress:
Got a window up and running with a monochrome color scheme.
All rendering will be done in software and then drawn directly to the screen using glDrawPixels (which is actually faster than drawing a single texture on my hardware)
Right now I just have random noise up there (generating the noise is two orders of magnitude faster than just drawing a texture...)
I'm really hoping AMD releases more drivers for windows 8 so I can actually have hardware-accelerated OpenGL.
But still, 13 fps should be enough for a text-based rpg.

[retep998]

Progress:
I switched to using SDL instead of SFML. Software rendering something and then sending that data to the gpu using opengl is going to be slow no matter what I do. So now I just use pure software rendering and this shit is running at 150 fps
So anyway, I got unifont loaded and text is rendering.
Next step is actually making the game.

[Ninjaboi]

Glad to hear the bases are loaded for you! Keep us posted on progress!