<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 01.04.2011, at 21:34, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Em 01-04-2011 16:14, David Faught escreveu:
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<div>I've been playing the game Portal (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%28video_game">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(video_game</a>))
for the last few months and it has to be one of the best 3D
games I have seen, right up there with Spore as far as I am
concerned. One of the things that intrigues me about this game
is that it looks like it could have been inspired by Croquet,
although it wasn't. So now in the next few weeks, a new
collaborative version of Portal is coming out, which should
prove to be lots of fun.</div>
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<div>I would think that it would be almost trivial to build the
basis of this game in Cobalt/Croquet and thereby have
multiplayer capability right in the first iteration. But what
kind of puzzles of this type would be interesting for an
undetermined number of players greater than 1? This project
sounds interesting enough to me that it could be worthwhile to
get back into the Croquet/Cobalt community. My concern is that
the Cobalt/Croquet base still may not be up to the performance
and stability standards that would be needed for a project like
this.</div>
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Imho, Cobalt lacks some fundamental capabilities to fit the role of
RPG/FPS game engine. Among them I would mention the absence of a
collision detection system.<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>What happened to the sphere-tree used for collision detection in Croquet? Besides, anything lacking could be added if deemed necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>
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