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Game Line Wars II

LineWars II is basically a 3-D space arcade game. It requires almost no strategical thinking. What makes LineWars II special is the use of realtime lightsource-shaded graphics, support for high end graphics and sound cards, and the ability to play against one or many human opponents.

In the star systems that you visit in LineWars II there is always a sun, a planet and various other objects. All objects are very realistically shaded with the light emitted from the sun. When you rotate in space you will see that the brightest side of any ship is always the one pointed towards the sun. This is what lightsource-shaded graphics is all about.

LineWars II uses vector-based polygon graphics to represent the objects in space. The planets are represented with extremely optimized Gouraud-shaded balls. The routine to draw a Gouraudshaded ball is one of LineWars II's most unique features. The algorithm is totally my own invention, and it uses a thoroughly different approach than traditional polygon-mesh representation of a ball. (More info can be found in the Appendix C.)

The registered version of LineWars II contains a demonstration game, nine single-play missions, two two-player missions and two multi-player missions. Unregistered shareware version has the demo game, three first single-play missions and only one two-player and one multi-player mission.

All the missions of LineWars II can be played many times in a

row. The object of the game is to shoot a lot of enemy ships while not getting yourself killed. Your score increments every time you kill an enemy ship, and the game keeps track of your highest scores in each of the single-play missions. In the two-player and multiplayer missions your score is based on your victories/deaths ratio, and it spans the current session only.

LineWars II uses your VESA-compatible or S3 Accelerated SVGA card much better than most comparable games, and it supports a wide variety of sound cards, including Gravis UltraSound and Roland SCC-1. And even though it is such a complex and sophisticated game, it can run in as little as 80 kilobytes of memory, and even on AT class machines.

Distributive size: 539K Windows-95,98,ME,2000,XP,NT