12 February 2017
Navigate a generated (2D) maze using a First-Person 3D view from inside the maze.
- python3
- pyglet
- numpy
- pyrr
(see
requirements.txt)
Start game with python3 app.py
A new maze is generated and displayed in Plan View. Press to toggle between available views. Use the arrow keys to move forwards, backwards, turn left and turn right.
The implementation uses a MVC paradigm with a single controller a 3 distinct views:
The first view is the Plan View giving a 2D (top-down) representation of the maze and player position. The image is generated using pyglet Sprites.
The second view is the re-implementation of the 3D view that I first implemented on my old Acorn Atom. The image is black and white line-art picture giving an approximation of what might be seen by the player. The player jumps from one position to the next and the image does not attempt to show what could be seen in side passages, but merely indicates that the side passage it there. It is crude, but I could implement it on a small Atom with the screen redraw taking about 0.5 seconds. Here it is rather quicker based on pyglet vertex buffers.
The third view is the extension of the 3D view trying to give a much more realistic model. The sky is blue, the ground is gravel, and walls are hedges. This view uses OpenGL shaders with the heavy lifting being done on the GPU.