Cube Wars!

Cube Wars! is based on the SNES puzzle classic, Tetris Attack and comes with several additions and improvements. Two players begin with a well filled with random colored blocks. They are equipped with a two block cursor which flips blocks under it. If a match of three or more colors is made horizontally or vertically, the blocks disappear. In addition, if more than three blocks have been removed, the other player is bombarded by "garbage blocks".

Any questions or comments should be directed to The Hyperion Group

Features:

• Native Win32 application in 100% assembly
• 16-bit SVGA graphics
• Simultaneous translation of sprite position and animation of sprite image
• Per pixel and per sprite alpha blending vith optional MMX support
• Reconfigurable user input
• Software implemented sound mixing and streaming
• MIDI and CD Music support
• Networked play -- play head to head over TCP/IP

• Special blocks
  • Rain block - a match of three or more rains throw rows of blocks on your opponent
  • Transport blocks - a match of three or more eliminates all blocks adjacent to the transport blocks and sends them to your opponent
  • Destroy all blocks adjacent to the bomb blocks
• Networked play using TCP/IP and Windows Sockets

• Achieving reasonable frame rates with software-based per pixel alpha blending
• Software streaming and mixing of sound effects
• Network Synchronization
• Organization and implementation of a large project
• Differences between 16-bit pixel formats on various hardware
• Implementing gravity in the game logic
• Consistency of on screen graphics and internal data structures
  Implementation / Procedures
  
  For a copy of the code or any questions about our implementation, please send mail to The Hyperion Group
  

  The following is a high-level block diagram of the Cube Wars implementation.
  
  See the following pages for function and data structure breakdown by person:
  Scott Mosier
  Chris Fester
  Sankalp Acharya
  Geeven Singh
  Peter Olson
  

  External Routines

  DetectMMX - MMX detection code was adapted from the document, AMD-K6 Processor Multimedia Extensions (MMX)

  Screen Shots
  Menus in windowed mode....
  
  
  Networking....