Hanova is a third person Action RPG. It is a classic dungeon crawl game where you explore the depths of the mystical caves on Hanova, fight unedifying monsters and acquire magnificent treasures. You are the leader of a small party of brave adventurers, who will help you be victorious in battles and help carry your loot.
You are not the only party to enter these darkened caves however. You may run into other hardened bands of wilful explorers on your travels.
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I have been spending a lot of time on this game. We currently have a functioning procedural cave generation system. It is based on 3D tiles that connect together with standard interfaces so that they match up properly. I am also rotating and flipping all the tiles to produce more variation. This massively cuts down the number of tiles that have to be modelled. A single tile model has 8 variations. I currently have a total of 21 base tiles, but I intend make more once I have some actual gameplay.
The cave system is fitted out with a navigation mesh, which shows where characters can walk, and can also be used for pathfinding.
I have also been investigating shadow mapping. Something I have been meaning to do for quite a while. I want to implement omni-directional shadows using cube mapping as the characters will be carrying torches.
This is my shadow mapping test. It currently only has one spotlight, but now I have worked out how to do it, the rest should be relatively easy.
