Impressive homebrew gives Renegade Kid a run for their money

by David Hinkle { Sep 5th 2008 at 7:00PM }

Seriously, we thought the only people who could create such sound first-person shooting were Renegade Kid. But, homebrew creator Smea has gone ahead and disproved that notion with the tech demo you see in the video above. With some impressive lighting effects and a custom 3D collisions engine, you can bet we're impressed.

[Thanks, HBM!]

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Tags: first-person, first-person-shooter, fps, renegade-kid, smea

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

jooozek @ Sep 5th 2008 7:23PM

WHAT, that looks hilarous!

Flagg @ Sep 5th 2008 8:10PM

Quake 2

Peter @ Sep 5th 2008 8:34PM

That blaster looks suspiciously similar to the one from Quake II. Hmmm...

SephFinale @ Sep 6th 2008 3:01AM

It's a bit...dark. D;

I wonder if Valve will ever attempt a portable version of the Source engine... /hmm

MagNet @ Sep 6th 2008 5:53AM

Guys, the developer's name is Smealum, fix that. He's the one behind the Legion homebrew aswell, I've seen this footage a few days ago and I'd say that it might evolve into something nice.

Regarding the Q2's blaster, it's normal to use already existing assets when you're developing an engine.

xcdjy @ Sep 6th 2008 7:20AM

Look's pretty good. I've never played Quake, so I wouldn't know if it was a rip off or texture change or anything.

A bit jittery, though. That'd make me feel sick pretty quick lol :D.

TX2 @ Sep 6th 2008 1:10PM

Engines nice (Great even), but I'd get someone on the design and Textures. Even for a tech-demo that was unimpressive.

Trouble @ Sep 6th 2008 1:16PM

ha ha ha wouldthis homebrew genius be called John Carmack by anychance because thats obviously a tweaked Q2 base code there and more to the point there's much more interesting looking engines going for the DS I don't think Renegade Kid are in danger of being trumped yet. Just look at how sexy Moon looks.