ORRC Entry

Dystopian Metropolis

by Mental Vertex

Description

Instructions:

This will run on 64 bit Linux systems (I can easily create executables for other systems if needed)
You need libsdl2 installed (apt install libsdl2-2.0-0 should do)
Double click the executable or run ./megalopolis in a terminal.
The window will close after 12 seconds and save the screenshot.

New/Old renderer:

This is an in-development renderer that I constantly improve, so no rendering features for this competition specifically.
The actual scene was created/scripted for the competition though.
Also a bug in my old integrator showed up while testing this on an ancient netbook, so my RK4 was made for this in particular :)

Other info:

This is more of an 'honourable mention' style of entry. It's a completely from scratch CPU rasterizer which I started working on in late 2022. It won't rival raytraced entries at all, it's mostly about the aesthetic/theme fit.

It uses zero external code, including the math/physics (99% of the logic was sourced from books, memory or wikipedia). Apart from the SDL2 dependency for obvious cross-platform reasons, and Rust related stuff.

The goal was to create something that recreates the mid 90s PSX/DOS style, taking also some liberties. It renders to a 320x180 framebuffer, uses mainly 8-bit colormapped textures, low poly counts, no texture filtering...

The particular environment is part of a game I am currently developing, so I stripped most of the functionality and assets to create a build for this competition. The game's setting is a dystopian metropolis in the future, so it was a perfect fit for the theme.

The image you will get could be +-1 frame from the image provided. In fact every run you make could be a bit off, since I use a timer for this and it's not 100% deterministic when the screenshot will be taken.

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orrc_oct2026_linux64-mental_vertex.zip (379.7 kb)

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ORRC Entry

Dystopian Metropolis

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