From diderot@hitl.washington.edu Wed Dec 7 12:29:44 1994 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA25998; Wed, 7 Dec 94 12:29:44 -0800 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA10140; Wed, 7 Dec 94 12:29:39 -0800 Received: by hitl.hitl.washington.edu; id AA01860; Wed, 7 Dec 1994 12:26:08 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 12:26:08 -0800 X-Sender: diderot@hitl.washington.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: scivw@hitl.washington.edu From: lisa@criterion.canon.co.uk (Lisa Garvey) (by way of diderot@hitl.washington.edu (Toni Emerson)) Subject: CyberStreet from Criterion Software X-Status: Status: OR CyberStreet(tm) Released! ---------------------------------------- Criterion Software has just announced the release of 'CyberStreet', a hot new demo of its RenderWare interactive 3D API. CyberStreet, available for Windows 3.1, DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5, with its entirely perspective-correct texture-mapped, fully interactive shoot-em-up action scenes gives a glimpse of the future of PC gaming. Mark Rendle, Digital Artist responsible for the graphic design on CyberStreet, created all the artwork for the demo within a couple of weeks: "RenderWare comes with a whole set of utilities specifically for people who, like me, know what visuals they want in a game, but not necessarily how to integrate them into the game engine. For example, I used 3D Studio to create all the texture maps used on the buildings and backdrops, and the animated, articulated 3D characters. Using the RenderWare utilities for palette maching and 3D object and animation conversion, it was a breeze to turn out the artwork in a couple of weeks." So does CyberStreet come from the 'visual quality' or the 'blow 'em away' school of game design? Jonathan Small, game programmer and critic, talks about the creative concepts behind CyberStreet: "...Set in a moody side-street on the wrong side of town in the not-so-distant future, CyberStreet brings a new sense of gutsy realism to the PC gamer. But wait... that's not all... It's raining killer rats! Some of them may be content rooting about the trash cans and discarded junk littering the alley, but they're _all_ carrying a deadly virus. It may involve blowing the guts out of the vermin, but someone has to clean up this town... and it may as well be you!" The CyberStreet demo, first shown at fall COMDEX on the booths of FirePower, IBM, Motorola, Yamaha, ATI, Diamond, 3DLabs and many others, is available from an InfoBahn near you, at: ftp.canon.co.uk, pub/renderware/{ms-windows|DOS|NT-Win95}/demos/wincybst.zip and WWW http://www.canon.co.uk/csl/cslhome.html For further information on licensing RenderWare, contact Criterion Software on: email: rw-info@criterion.canon.co.uk Europe: tel +44-483-448800 & ROW fax +44-483-448811 (Retail, OEM, major ISV) US: tel (408) 489-5103 (OEM and major ISV) fax (408) 245-2135 Japan: tel +81-43-211-9151 fax +81-43-211-9178 (Retail, OEM, major ISV)