Sunday, August 08, 2004

Most people would claim that Doom3 is the latest anti-productivity software, to which I'm partially inclined to agree.  The game definitely conveys "presence".  I'm going to reserve my thoughts about this for now, other than to say that the "out of the box" multiplayer experience leaves much to be desired.

But the true anti-productivity software I'm talking about is called Novodex Rocket.  It's not a game.  Rather, it's a software product that demonstrates all the features you can get from using the Novodex Physics SDK.  I found myself toying endlessly with trebuchets, Jenga block stacks, horses careening through brick walls (no horses were injured during the simulation), and rag-doll like monsters and stick-men.

One of the other cool features is that this is the first publicly-available product I've seen that uses the new "Custom UI" feature found in the DirectX SDK

Go check Rocket out, but don't blame me if your productivity takes a dive.  I've given you fair warning :)

8/8/2004 8:09:24 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [1]  |  Trackback
8/13/2004 2:36:47 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Darn you and bless you for pointing that out.

It's a massive blackhole sucking away my free time but what a fun way to waste time. Now I just need to take the time to figure out how to construct my own little worlds to tear apart.

By the way, they just released a beta for the new 1.1 version. It requires DirectX 9c. I grabbed it but I haven't run it yet so I have no idea what they added.
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