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[e-dog]

This is a game inspired by Magic Carpet, but with modern features and graphics.
It has water simulation now, and I plan to add lava and swarms of creatures.
Flying and casting powerful spells that reshape the world is a must 

UPDATE: There's some gameplay now, and I'd like some feedback on it. General and technical feedback is also welcome.

Windows only for now, but it was reported to run fine under Wine on Linux.
Needs GPU with shaders 3.0 and a decent CPU.
Try turning off anti-aliasing and post-effect if it's slow.

Download demo: http://ranmantaru.com/games/download/AWd (2M)

More pictures: http://ranmantaru.com/gallery/nggallery/screenshots/arcane-worlds-screenshots/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL74841ECEE5C39DF5
My blog: http://ranmantaru.com/blog/
IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/arcane-worlds

[tobib]

looks pretty nice and the water flows nicely down the hills

However the breaking waves (like if they get bigger) look a bit weird (jittery).

Now all you need are some NPCS/monsters and a few spells and this will be awesome to play

[JimmyJ]

First heard of this on RPS, I am absolutely in love with it already. I get a full 60 FPS without AA on, it drops to 50 when enabled.

[e-dog]

First heard of this on RPS, I am absolutely in love with it already. I get a full 60 FPS without AA on, it drops to 50 when enabled.

I'm glad you like it!
RPS was totally unexpected for me
I might add simpler post-processing AA later. The current one is a variant of morphological AA which is quite slow.

[Manuel Magalhães]

Wow, that's beautiful. I'll give it a shot now.

[omgnoseat]

The water is pretty impressive, good job!

I ran some tests on averagely specced laptop:
Processor: i3 m350 @ 2.27GHz
Ram: 4 gig
Windows 64 bit

I got about 17 fps. Disabeling post-processing gained me about 4ps. Didn' t notice much from the other options.

I accidentily left the exe running on the background for about 30 minutes and the framerate dropped to 3 fps. So you probably have a memory leak somewhere.

[_Tommo_]

So much technical awesome! Reminds me a lot of From Dust

[imaginationac]

Why is it asking for a disk?

[e-dog]

Why is it asking for a disk?

A disk? That's strange.
What is the message exactly? Can you post a screenshot?

[imaginationac]

Sure.

[e-dog]

Thanks! I'll look into it.

[e-dog]

I think I fixed it. You can re-download the demo now.

[imaginationac]

Yay! Works!

Runs slowly. I get about 5 FPS.
Specs:
2GB RAM
GeForce 8500 GT 512 MB
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.3 Ghz

[e-dog]

Runs slowly. I get about 5 FPS.

Did you try turning off AA and post-effect? (F6 and F5 in game).
Also, your screen resolution and a shot of those stat numbers could be useful.

[imaginationac]

Turned off post effect (AA was already off) and I got about 8 FPS.

1920 x 1080 (windowed). I'm running dual monitors if that matters.

Here's  a shot: