This is awesome. Mickey's Revenge looks so much better with LOD at 800%!
This game is a gem, it deserves a spot in the video-game hall of fame.
Absolutely loved this game. I used to try and fly an F4 Phantom through the canyon at top speed. My brother created a short film "Attack of the Killer Christmas Trees". Endless fun.
It’s fun to look back and gain some insight into how this game was made. 30 years ago I was just starting middle school and I remember vividly seeing this game for the first time. I was visiting my cousins and they had all these fantastic games like Secret of Monkey Island, Lechuck’s Revenge, Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle. I remember spending hours playing these games. One of my favorites was Stunts which came with a built-in track editor!
Feels just like yesterday. Shocking how our perception of time works.
Neat stuff!
(The aliasing seems brutal now though with all that detail. Need to figure out how to boost the resolution / do some type of MSAA.)
Literally the game that introduced me to programming. Building your own stunts was very similar to turtle scripting, only in 3D and far more engaging. When I started taking multimedia classes at RIT, working in Macromedia Director was a natural progression. Thanks Stunt Island, it's been a good career so far!
Really interesting! I’ve been working on an idea for a dual-purpose compiler/decompiler and this is really useful for understanding the kinds of things it might need to be used for.
This is so great. I loved Stunt Island back in the day.
"Twerking stunt island's 30-year-old 3d engine?" On HN?! I'm in!
... ah
>30-year-old 3D Engine
I saw that title and thought to myself "Wow, a 3D game engine from the 80's!" before realizing 30 years ago was 1994-95, during the time of Doom 2 and a year before the first Quake. Damn, I'm getting old fast.
It's difficult to impress how cool it was to have a open world flight sim / 3D movie editor in 1995. There's not much like it even today; GTA V's movie editor is close. A small "scene" grew up around it, and there were lots of mods/hacks in the 2000s: https://armknechted.com/sicentral/newpage/hacksi.html