What is ludiloom?
ludiloom is an online service for integrated game production and distribution. Equipped with the OGRE 3D engine, NVIDIA PhysX and other powerful tools, it allows you to develop any game genre you can think of, including multiplayer games.
Who uses ludiloom?
ludiloom is intended for anyone interested in creating 3D games or other interactive content. The community gathers Game Designers, Programmers, 3D artists, Concept Artists, Musicians and pretty much everyone else needed to produce a video game. Of course, these make up the part of the community that makes games, the other part is made up of players and modders in general.
How to Start?
You can Sign Up and Download ludiloom or the other way around.
It's just that simple
Powerful Graphics
Based on OGRE3D graphics engine, the ludiloom engine lets you focus on designing and managing the game experience.
Audio & Video
Standard audio formats, such as .WAV and .OGG, are supported along with realtime video recording and playback on any surface.
Physics
Built-in NVIDIA PhysX® engine. Joints, characters, sensors and vehicles (soon: soft bodies and deformable materials).
Game User Interface
Drag&Drop GUI editor with lots of widgets and skining support. Fast and easy listener configuration.
Cameras
User friendly camera manager enables you to create any kind of in-game cinematic language.
Landscape Modeling
Instant and easy, direct manipulation, deformation and detail texture painting of the terrain, with normal mapping support. Terrain projective decals, to highlight hotspots or scene decoration.
Architecture & Network
Firewall friendly network infrastructure, designed to support any game genre with smart, realtime network load adjustment.
Game Scripting
Featuring LUA programming language with and extensive ludiloom API enabling you to control every aspect of your game.
Materials
Advanced materials engine and GUI based editor with vertex and pixel shaders support. Easily setup camera, video and html renders.
Gizmos
Gizmos to place, rotate and scale let you organize and resize, in 3D, each scene object, maintaining hierarchy relations.
A Browser Within
Built-in web browser, allowing web access inside any game.
Roads & Rivers
Point and click to create roads and rivers in seconds and enhance them with materials.
Secure P2P Network
With ludiloom it's just as easy to create a single as a multiplayer game, managing game state consistence and persistence.
Immediate Publishing
ludiloom uses a hybrid P2P architecture for efficient game content distribution and high availability.
Environment
Easy environment setup, with environment lighting and sound, fog, skybox, skydome and skyplane support.
Pathfinding
Built-in pathfinding techniques allow automatic character movement control. (soon: inter and extrapolation system).
Lights & Shadows
In any scene, depth shadow maps, texture and stencil shadows can be cast from any light in realtime.
Effects
High quality particle-based effects, let you create fire, smoke, dust, rain...
