"The Nomad" is a 2D hack-and-slash fighting game where you play as a mercenary in a post-apocalypse world known as Bellatum Terrae.
The currently release version of the game is a Demo Alpha Test, so expect lots of bugs. If you do find a bug, please do me a favor and report it, after all, I can only fix bugs that I know about.
Unless you're into programming, this won't really be interesting...
There are the following changes made to the Quake3e engine that were made in order to extend moddability and modernization:
- Upgraded OpenGL v2.1 renderer to v4.5/6 with Direct State Access, persistently mapped vertex/index/uniform/ssbos(if the hardware allowed it) buffers
- Implemented shader caching for faster load times and more efficient shader compilation
- Replaced the Quake 3 VM with AngelScript & improved AngelScript's vector implementation because it was very memory inefficient (saved roughly half a GB by doing this)
- Replaced Quake 3's sound system with FMOD for easier sound editing and integration, as well as implementing a channel based buffering system akin to the one found in idTech4
Since Steam is the place where I intend to publish the game in the future, I'll have to do a rewrite of the engine because it uses GPL v2'd code from the Quake III Arena engine.
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| OpenGL | Implemented |
| Vulkan | Coming soon |
| D3D11 | In the far future |
| Metal | Unless OSX forces you to use it, probably never |
Audio: FMod
Everything else that's system specific is either handled by SDL2 or the engine Future Features: custom simd implementations for standard library functions