Mage Wars

Game description

Imagine a land of hills and valleys where wizards compete in a deadly spell tournament hurling fireballs and other spells at each other. Featuring turn-based gameplay, hot seat multi-player mode, dynamic terrain generation, custom designed characters and key frame animation. Mage War is a feature-reduced clone of the classic Tank Wars game.

Goals

The primary goal of this project was to pass my Computer Graphics class with it. Therefore, it meant trying out a bunch of graphic related feature. This meant not spending time on complex gameplay or non-graphical feature like sound or network play.

A sad consequence is that there is no option menu for the many commands. You need to use the console to do simple things like changing the number of players, or changing the map dimension.

Screenshots

Inspiration

Inspired from games such as Tank Wars, Scoch Earth, Worms, and even the QBasic demo Gorilla.

Credits

Ming Tang's contribution

Models and Model's animations
VRML reader
Scene Graph

David Lareau's contribution

Game logic
Dynamic animations
Input
Bring it all together (View)

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Mage Wars
Release Date: 2006-04-07

Keyboard / Mouse Commands

Input	Description
Mouse	move the lookAt point of the camera.
Up Arrow	Increase the attack angle.
Down Arrow	Decrease the attack angle.
Left Arrow	Rotate the avatar counter clockwise.
Right Arrow	Rotate the avatar clockwise.
Page Up	Increase attack power (longer distance).
Page Down	Decrease attack power (shorter distance).
A	Pan camera to the left.
D	Pan camera to the right.
W	Move camera forward.
S	Move camera backward.
V	Move camera lookAt to origin.
1	Activate weapon fireball.
2	Activate weapon cyclone.
3	Activate weapon Nova.
`	Open console.
F	Shows frame rate and triangle count
R	Reset the game (generate a new map, restore all players)

Console commands

Misusing the console may cause unpredicatable results

help: Prints all the available console commands on standard output
set radius_bomb_size size: Changes the size of the bomb
enable/disable lighting: Toggles if we are considering lighting
enable/disable light1: Toggles if we are using GL_LIGHT1
enable/disable material: Toggles if we are using GL_MATERIAL
enable/disable debug: Toggles debug mode view
enable/disable normalize: Toggles if we are using GL_NORMALIZE
enable/disable displaylist: Toggles if we are using display list optimization or not
set light1 ambient/diffuse r g b a: Set a color of light1
set shading flat/smooth: Selects which type of shading to use
set material back/front/front_back emission/ambient/specular/diffuse/ambient_diffuse: Change the material properties
set speed speedValue: Change the speed of the game
animate player_number animation_name time: This will make the specified player execute the specified animation in the specified number of milisecond.
animation_name cast, hurt, death
set players numberOfPlayers width height cannon-dx cannon-dy cannon-dz cannon-length: Change players detailed properties
set players numberOfPlayers scale: Change the number of players, and their overal size
set player id name: Change the name of a player
set grid width depth height: Change the terrain grid dimension
set gravity x y z: Set gravity
set wind x y z: Set wind
enable/disable wind: Toggles if we consider wind or not