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The people I worked with:
Piranha Bytes and
CodeCult, two small
German companies that were part of the
Phenomedia AG. You should really have a look at Piranha's RPGs
Gothic I and II! Right now, I am a PHD student
at the department for theoretical physics in Cologne.
Politics:
Games:
There are a lot of other free Tron games out there, even counting only those in 3D ( all available for
Windows ):
- glTron , Armagetron's toughest competitor by
Andreas Umbach. Great graphics
and sound, smart AI opponents, but no networking yet in the official versions
( it's being worked on ). Available for Linux and Mac OS, too.
- Lightcycles: Game Grid Champions has a
really good cockpit view.
- Cycles3D by Dragonslayer offers single player and multiplayer games.
Available for Linux, too.
- Super Cycles Arena , the only one with obstacles in the arena.
- LightBikes 2 has original graphics. Multiplayer only.
- Gladiatron 3D basic
splitscreen action against a friend or the AI. Nice transparent walls.
- SWRON in Shockwave.
- NaniTron is neat an very small ( 9 kb ). Unix only.
- RevoTron looks good ( but not as good as glTron although it uses a number of advanced graphical tricks ), gameplay can be argued about.
These are not lightcycle games:
- Quatron by Michael Kupfer,
a Tron map for Q3A (you have
to click your way through to it or select the direct download
here)
- Disks of TROFF , a Tron disk game by
Dale Drechsler
- UnrealTron , a Tron Mod for Unreal
Tournament.
These ones are not 3D, but for handhelds:
And these ones are not free:
- Sonic Speedsters : this
is the best looking lighcycle style game of them all;
the way the speedsters are turning is just amazing.
The sounds fit really well into the atmoshphere.
Get a demo screensaver of it
here.
- StarTron offers the most game content of all lightcycle-style
games. Demo is available.
- Tron 2.0 , what do I need to say?
For a fan of Tron and first person shooters, I guess this counts as a must-buy.
Of course, we all know that the lightcycle part can't compete with Armagetron
( I only tried both demos and could not get used
to any of the camera modes or the cycle handling itself; however, all reports and reviews
from people not biassed towards the free lighcycle games were positive. )
- LighCycles 3D by WRAITH
Software.
Tron: the movie
Misc stuff:
- 3D Sector , a site dedicated to 3D engines.
The place to check out if you want to start your own 3D game!
Web Directories:
- DemoNews is a great site for Games,
3D Tools and stuff.
And the ones you probably know already:
- FreshMeat , the big Open Source
directory.
- GameSpot has TONS of game demos and
freeware games to download.
Some links for my Ego:
Dead links:
Please email me if you know what happened to one of those!
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Last modification: Thu Oct 2 22:01:03 CEST 2003