Alpha Build - Cascade FX Homebrew game for PC-FX

[gameblabla]

Cascade FX

Here's a 3D sofware rendered puzzle (Tetris) game for the PC-FX (and also Casio Loopy but i won't say too much about it ) !
This is an early alpha build with only arcade mode and a mostly empty "Puzzle" mode that will get more content later.
Press A to rotate the piece and dpad to move it around.
All of the puzzle pieces are actual 3D models, nothing is being faked or prerendered !

Video
PC-FX video

Download
https://github.com/gameblabla/CascadeFX/releases/tag/0.1

On real hardware you have two options :
- Burn it on CDR with imgburn. (make sure you use gold rated CDRs and a decent burner)
- David Shadoff's dev cartridge (In which case, you won't get any CDDA music)

Changelog

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0.2 (PC-FX only)
- Improve rendering of 3D models (still not quite perfect for cube at titlescreen though)
- Improve speed for Cube at titlescreen
- Improve text rendering (not using VDC fonts anymore)
- Improve speed during ingame
- Forcing Vsync (not that the game exceeded 60 FPS but it's good to have)


[Necromancer]

Looking cool   I love me some tetrisy fun, and the 3D is interesting.

[majors]

Wow, Loopy homebrew. What a world we live in.

Always happy to see some new game development for PC-FX that are non-dating sims

[gameblabla]

Glad you like it ! Someone else did try it on real hardware and does work (i knew this but thought to mention :p)
I did a minor update to add sound effects and stuff, I will attempting to improve the performance further with quad rendering instead of triangles
and after that, add more puzzles to puzzle mode and more polishing.

[gameblabla]

Updated the game : there was a pretty bad game breaking bug. Lines were not being cleared properly.... :/ It made the game too easy.
This is now fixed so my bad ! The funny thing is that, i exactly show it off in my video but no one told me
If you wonder why : the NEC PC-FX doesn't exactly like 8-bits integers. I switched to 32-bits integers and it addressed the issue.

I also switched to quad rendering instead, altho it was a mostly minor enhancement performance wise (the bottleneck is elsewhere anyway) but the other benefit
is that it fixed an issue with it sometimes overdrawing too much... this is now being done properly.

I added more puzzles to puzzle mode now that the game is more stable : they're not exactly challenging to be honest so i invite people to come up with some better ones.

Since last version, i also added more sound effects (really basic ones) and more stuff. For those that haven't played it yet, i suggest they give it a try now !