Tony Bartram has around twenty titles in his AMCOG Games back catalogue, and is currently working on two more titles, both of which feature something new or novel for our platform, and he will be talking at the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting, this coming Wednesday.
The first of these is a 3D space game, which will be coming at you at the RISC OS London Show later this year – and when I say ‘coming at you’ I mean that in a slightly more literal way than simply referring to its release.
The game’s graphics come from photographs of original models (scratch-built using similar techniques to the original Star Wars models). Not only that, but they have been photographed suitably to create anaglyph stereoscopes – a form of 3D imaging. This technique involves two images, each given a different colour and superimposed over one another. When looked at using simple glasses that filter the colours separately for each eye, the brain can be tricked into thinking it’s seeing a three dimensional image. (This doesn’t work for everyone, though, so this will be an optional mode of play in Tony’s game – which will be supplied with a free pair of red/blue – i.e. filtered – glasses.)
The second title offers a novel mode of play with a simulated raster display that varies the amount of detail shown depending on the speed – the faster it updates, the less detail there is, which therefore adds to the difficulty. Conversely, in its slowest ‘scanning’ mode, full detail is shown, but not the whole screen. With a working title of ‘Droid On’, the game is a 3D puzzle game that centres around a damaged robot running low on power, and is expected to be released at Wakefield 2025.
The meeting will take place online using Zoom, and will take place on Wednesday, September 4th at 7:45pm.
There are no entry requirements other than being able to join a Zoom meeting – so you’ll need a computer or other device that runs the software, an internet connection, and the meeting credentials. If you’ve joined other recent WROCC meetings you should have those credentials, but if not you can get them by contacting the group.
Although the meeting is open to any RISC OS user, regardless of WROCC membership status, it’s well worth supporting the group by joining; the cost is just £7.50 each year, and you get the group’s self-titled monthly newsletter sent to your inbox as a PDF file, along with access to their online discussion forum.
