Some might remember the famous game that was released about 25 years ago on Atari ST. Midi Maze was one of the first first-person multiplayer shooter games.
The computers were connected with a midi ring bus and the 3d graphic was really impressive.
Midimaze 2 added some new elements like doors (yellow walls) and buyable powerups (reflective projectile, map, speedup, …)
A little fun fact:
The 68000 in the Atari has 1 MIPS (no FPU, so comparison is not that easy). My new GTX 970 has now 3,5 TFLOPS.
If we assume that 1 instruction maps to ~1 flop, we have a factor of 3.5 million and we are in the order of one 68000 per pixel.
edit:
This evening, i played around with another idea.
I think i found a new place to construct a maze.
At the moment, i’m playing around with some clouds.
Not completely satisfied yet, but the performance is beyond expectations (aka fast enough to use it with the oculus rift).
Really nice! As far as I can remember, it was released on some consoles. Love the minimalistic (but rich in effects) design - once again, it’s a proof that indie games don’t have to be pixel-arty to be true to the original.
