4DTRIS

I found some time ago that somebody made an Ohloh project for 4dtris and linked it to the old SVN code repository which contained the 0.1.0 version of the game. This caused Ohloh to list false infos and statistics about 4dtris. I was wondering what stats would they extract form the recent codebase and what [...]

Stable version of  0.4 series is released now. Two new language: Italian and English (UK) added, one bug fixed and some packaging optimalization done. Download: https://launchpad.net/4dtris/+download Release details / changelog: ... [More] https://launchpad.net/4dtris/0.4/0.4.2 This version may contain further undetected bugs, if you can find one please report at bug tracking page: https://bugs.launchpad.net/4dtris The development is focused now on 0.5 series. Some screenshot will be [...] [Less]

I’ve just made a little research on existing games dealing with the fourth dimension and I’m surprised that I could find more than twenty of them. I’ve listed the titles and the following informations about the games in a table: authors, date of ... [More] first releases, licenses, programming languages, used 4D visualization technics and stereoscopic view availability. See [...] [Less]

Beta version of the 0.4 series has been released. This version contains 4 bugfixes (see release page) and features two new languages (French and Catalan). There are known minor issues which haven’t been fixed yet. They will be fixed in the 0.4.2 ... [More] stable release. New bugs can be reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/4dtris. Every bugreport [...] [Less]

The alpha release of the new 4dtris has finally arrived. New features: Localization – (see below); Stereoscopic and Anaglyph view; Improved rendering (cylinders for edges, grid); Modified score calculation (bonus points for double levels, object ... [More] dropping and cleared gamespace); Two point perspective projection from 4D to 3D; Hidden/intermediate surface removal; SDL used instead of GLUT; For full list of new features and fixed bugs [...] [Less]

4dtris 0.4.0 alpha version is almost complete. It hopefully will be released on next weekend. All new features seem to work. Some minor feature is still missing, but the head of the source is now playable, so it is a good time to publish a trailer. The game is using SDL now instead of GLUT. This [...]

Visualisation improvements of the next release are mostly done. Here is a preview screenshot which  shows the recent status… … and a report about the translations: Thanks to the volunteer translators 4dtris is already translated to Chinese, Greek ... [More] and  Swedish. Russian and Esperanto translations are also  started. It seems that next release comes with localization. [Less]

I’m planning to add language support to 4dtris at one of the following releases depending on how fast the translations will be ready.  To be honest, I can only make the Hungarian translations, which is my native language, so here I’m depending on volunteers who are willing to help the project. Since it is a [...]

Latest version of  0.3 series of 4dtris is considered stable and released now. It consists only a few minor changes and bugfix. Download: https://launchpad.net/4dtris/+download Release details / changelog: https://launchpad.net/4dtris/0.3/0.3.2 ... [More] Hopefully there is no more mayor bug in this version, but if you can find one please report at bug tracking page: https://bugs.launchpad.net/4dtris The development focused on 0.4 series. Preview will coming soon. [Less]

Beta version of the 0.3 series is released now. New version contains 5 bugfix concerning viewport rotation and game menu. For full changelog see release page. These bugs were known issues and only two bugs remained in the tracker, which won’t be fixed in 0.3 series because they would have big impact on the code, [...]