Get stoned legally: The Polynomial
Drugs can be dangerous: They can get you in jail and mine your health. But the colors… oh, the colors! Anyway, for some weird reason, most independent gaming blogs / sites have missed this release: The Polynomial :: Preview. I found it by chance while checking out linux gaming releases (don’t laugh), so kudos to the author for giving a damn about the penguin-based OS.
The Polynomial is a very basic first person arena shooter where you control something that shoots bullets against hordes of… ehm… flying stuff. But what really got my attention was the fact that pretty much everything you see on screen is precedurally generated. In plain english that means that the 3d models and textures are generated on the fly by the game using somewhat complex algorithms with somewhat random values[1]. That means that, most of the times, you’ll be looking at stuff you’ve never seen before. Neato.
As the author (Dmytry Lavrov) said, this is called “Preview” for a reason: There aren’t a whole lot of gameplay elements here, it currently looks more like a tech demo than a game but, hell, it looks like an awesome tech demo. I’m afraid it isn’t worth twenty bucks for me yet, but I’ll keep an eye on this one.
In any case, you can’t go wrong with the free demo. Now, do yourself a favor and go get it.
[1] If you didn’t get it, please use Google or Wikipedia, thanks.
Tags: abstract, games, procedural, review, tits
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