Dear friends,

today I revealed one game from 1997 which made ma jaw drop 2 floors down.

I read article ( Fifty 3D milestones in gaming ), I knew all the games which were listed there. Except one - Trespasser.


It is game related to Jurrasic Park movie somehow from 1997 which features:
  • Large full 3D environment with vegetation
  • Real time physics interaction(!)
  • Real time shadows (!)
  • Inverse kinematics (!) based animation of dinosaurs
  • Rag doll physics (!)
  • First person view, but with character body modelled


I must say I was very heavily impressed - game 12 years old which has features of current cutting edge games!
The polycount is low of course, the controls little odd ... but the rest - very impressive technology.

You can try demo for example from here:
http://download.cnet.com/Trespasser-...-10024401.html

and demo of datadisc (?) as last download here (but requires filePlanet account): http://trescom.org/index.php?page=do...=category&id=3

This is so inspiring! Imagine which hardware you had in 1997... this had to be gigantic programming challenge.


Petr