DxIce™ - Game Engine

Iso Metric Games!

DxIce

DxIce™ - Game Engine now includes support for iso metric games.
DracullSoft™ is releasing v1.1 of DxIce™ - Game Engine. Create multiple iso metric maps with lighting and altitude slopes. Save and load maps. Check for collision with ground Sprites and much more!

DxIce™ - Game Engine. Imagine It! Code It! Enjoy It! * ICE *



DxIce™ IsoGame Demo.
Player (a Knight) walks through the island.

DxIce IsoGame Demo


DxIce™ IsoGame Demo.
Player (a Knight) walks from the desert to the lake.

DxIce IsoGame Demo


DxIce™ IsoGame Demo.
Our Knight explores the island at night time.

DxIce IsoGame Demo


DxIce™ Iso Metric Demo.
Iso Map using multiple textures for tiles. Ground sprites with trees and houses and using an Tiler to animate the water.

DxIce Iso Metric Demo


DxIce™ - Night and Day.
Control the brightness of the Iso Scene at Runtime. Houses and trees are rendered using a darker version of the same graphics. This scene also shows tiles from 2 different textures

DxIce™ - Night and Day


DxIce™ - another Night.
Another part of the iso map at night.

DxIce™ - Apply extra lighting


DxIce™ - FogOfWar.
Fog of War support. Keep uncharted areas of the Iso Map hidden for from the player.

DxIce™ - FogOfView


DxIce™ - Scale Map.
The iso map supports different scaling of the Iso Scene. Also different Tile scaling is possible. This makes it possible to use the wonderful graphics of Reiner TileSets that has dimensions of 32x24. You can also use 32x32 if you like.

DxIce™ - Scale Map


DxIce™ - Map Editor.
Example code includes a basic iso map editor to load, edit and save maps. :)

DxIce™ - Scale Map


DxIce™ - Apply extra lighting.
Additional lighting spots can be configured. This can be used to show lights from Houses or cities at night time or create dusk-dawn effects on hill tops.

DxIce™ - Apply extra lighting


DxIce™ - Collision boxes.
Test for Collision Sprite to Sprite Collision both X and Y and Z ( altitude ) coordinates. Measures Distances, speeds and velocities. Draw bounding collission boxes during development.

DxIce™ - Collision of Sprites


DxIce™ - All the features can be combined!
You can still use all the other features - including explosions and fx, sprites, overlays, sounds etc.

DxIce™ - any combination of features


To run the test projects download the DxIce SDK.

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