Vicious Engine v2.5.2 Demo

The Vicious Engine® provides all features and functionality required to generate a fully platform compliant product. No additional 3rd party libraries are required, and all source code – including the editor, plugins, and licensed console engines – is included.

Today’s production cycles and demands on the game development team include:
- Increased complexity of new console hardware
- Less time to prototype, develop, test, and release products
- Greater consumer demand for gameplay and graphical content
- Simultaneous console release requirements
- Rapid prototype development for publisher and licensor sign-off



The Vicious Engine® empowers a team to focus on game content rather than low-level engine development. With proper game design and asset creation, multiple platforms may be targeted with the same game resources, and the time to market is greatly reduced. Consolidated development and testing efforts saves the company money and time.

The Vicious Engine® allows your team to focus on the core of your business – making games.

Features:
Point-and-Click Scripting

The Vicious scripting system is a robust solution that offers a unique point-and-click interface. Capitalizing on the data-driven model, all actions, functions, variables, and operators are selectable as individual elements, rather than entered manually as text. No coding is necessary and typing errors are virtually nonexistent. Right-clicking in the Script Editor accesses condition-sensitive script elements. These elements are combined into the events that drive the game, such as spawning characters, activating triggers, and checking controller states. To speed up the scripting process across games with similar dynamics, script events and other assets port easily between projects.

A full-featured debug system for scripts allows designers to set breakpoints and step line-by-line through the script during gameplay for easy debugging. The following features are available in the Script Debugger:
- Track function calls up to the current script instruction by viewing the callstack.
- Check an entity’s AI state or other object variables and parameters using the built-in Variable Watcher.
- Search for specific script elements and objects in the Script and Object Finder.
- Enter explanatory comments in script blocks, which can be converted to pop-up alerts and output log messages.



Easy Artificial Intelligence (AI) Development

Non-player game characters (NPCs) interact intelligently through the use of high- and low-level state machines. These state machines are created in the Vicious Editor and are reusable across several entity types. For example, a generic biped state machine can handle transitions between idle, moving, jumping, and landing for several different kinds of characters.

The state machines are also hierarchical. Child state machines inherit all the states and state functions of any ancestors. States can also be overridden in the child state machine and messages can be intercepted and/or trapped before a parent state machine can handle it. This enables creation of robust state machine systems for similar entity types with very little script redundancy. For example, a BaseWeapon state machine may implement states for idling, firing, and reloading of a weapon. The derived state machines for shotguns and pistols can altered for the specific firing states.

The Vicious Engine® utilizes NavMeshes, a fast and simple way to direct more natural AI movement. A NavMesh splits the map into groups of polygons that are merged into a field of possible movement. This allows for greater flexibility in moving around objects, because the NPCs direct their movement to an area, not to a specific point on the map. The Vicious Engine® also utilizes inheritance and lucid event messaging to create an intuitive development system for AI.



Straightforward Platform Conversion

A platform conversion utility simplifies the process of migrating the game to the following platforms:
- Nintendo Wii™
- Xbox 360™
- Sony PlayStation®2
- Sony PSP®
- Microsoft Xbox®
- Nintendo GameCube™
- PC
- Sony PlayStation®3



Vicious Engine v2.5.2 Demo Info:
This is Demo Version before you purchase the Engine. The Full Version is exactly the same, except it comes with the source code.

To play the demo level on your PC Its recommend that you have a USB/PSX or USB/DualShock converter with a PS2 controller/gamepad. You can also use an Xbox 360 USB controller attached to your PC. This will assist you in running around the environment since demo was written to show console-like control schemes.