Cyclone Engine

Steel Cyclone Studios is currently working very hard on the Cyclone Engine. The Cyclone Engine is a 3D game engine built upon the XNA Framework to help make it easier and save time creating and developing games. The studio is developing its first game using this engine and it will be the studio's first attempt to create a first-person shooter. More updates will be coming soon, so stay tuned!!!

ENGINE SUMMARY

RENDERING SYSTEM
The XNA framework will handle most of the rendering work. Pixel and Vertex shaders will add to the realism of the world. Deferred rendering and motion-blur is still in the works. 

• Fully functional Sky-box system
• Deferred Rendering (Work-In-Progress)

PHYSICS SYSTEM
Jdawgg is currently working hard on various physics for the engine. He has been coding his own physics but he's thinking about integrating the JigLibx library to help save development time.
 

AUDIO 

• Microsoft XACT is a great tool to help implement sound into your game but we are also exploring new techniques with sound. 

 AI (Artificial Intelligence) & GAME-PLAY

PLATFORMS

• Windows PC
• Xbox 360
• Windows Phone 

MODELS & ANIMATION

• Supports DirectX, FBX, and Obj model file types. 

SHADERS

 INPUT

LIGHTING 

• Per-Pixel Lighting

 TOOLS

PROGRAMMING

• Visual Studio C#

CAMERA 

• First Person Camera: This Camera is a simple FPS camera attached at the player’s head level. This camera also has spring physics. The camera will be a perspective camera used to make the game look 3D.

USER INTERFACE

• The engine comes built-in with a 2d Menu System with transition effects, splash screens, a loading screen, and a pause screen. Networking functionality for online play is still currently in the works. The menu system displays an animated busy indicator whenever a network operation is in progress. In multiplayer, once in the lobby, a list of gamers is displayed along with icons indicating who is currently talking and who has marked themselves as ready. When all the gamers are ready, the menu for now loads the first map.