The Evoke engine was designed to render 3D top down 3rd person perspective graphically intense games. It draws approximately 40 square metres of the world at all times, and so can theoretically render much more complex scenes then would be possible in an FPS.
Graphically the Evoke engine was inspired by titles like Diablo II, The Chaos Engine, Dungeon Keeper 2, Cannon Fodder 2 and more recently Dawn of War.
The Evoke Engine is currently being updated to 2.0
Short term To Do List:
# Add screenshots to this page.
# Refactor CZone to become CHectometre.
# Refactor CArea to become CDecametre.
# ReFactor Contents1.ini into the appropriate 70 CDecametres, and get them to be loaded.
# Create a CCamera class.
## Get the camera to toggle between 3rd and 1st Person modes, based on if you press Delete.
## Make the camera switch to 3rd person automatically mode if it moves.
## Get the Camera to interpolate its viewing angle dependant on its altitude, and remove the ability change this via Home and End.
# Add a new room.
** Upload all .libs, and some source code (Files Project).
Long term To Do List
* More meshes.
* HDR frame buffer and exposure control.
* Gamma curve correct lighting calculations.
* Deferred Rendering.
* 2 GPU Particle Systems.
* Upload remaining source code.
Controls
* The Arrow keys move the camera around the world, on the 'ground' plane
* The Insert and Page Up keys rotate the camera around the vertical axis. (Yaw)
* The Home and End keys move the camera closer/further away from the ground.
* The F2 key brings up graphical options.
Open Source
The Evoke 2.0 engine is completely open source. You are free to use the code in any way you like, modified, unmodified or copy and pasted into your own work. However, I expect you to respect these points:
* If you use an Evoke Engine source code file and its contents unmodified, or use a major part of the file, please credit the author and leave this note in the file.
* For use in anything commercial, please request my approval.
* Share your work and ideas too as much as you can.
Graphically the Evoke engine was inspired by titles like Diablo II, The Chaos Engine, Dungeon Keeper 2, Cannon Fodder 2 and more recently Dawn of War.
The Evoke Engine is currently being updated to 2.0
Short term To Do List:
# Add screenshots to this page.
# Refactor CZone to become CHectometre.
# Refactor CArea to become CDecametre.
# ReFactor Contents1.ini into the appropriate 70 CDecametres, and get them to be loaded.
# Create a CCamera class.
## Get the camera to toggle between 3rd and 1st Person modes, based on if you press Delete.
## Make the camera switch to 3rd person automatically mode if it moves.
## Get the Camera to interpolate its viewing angle dependant on its altitude, and remove the ability change this via Home and End.
# Add a new room.
** Upload all .libs, and some source code (Files Project).
Long term To Do List
* More meshes.
* HDR frame buffer and exposure control.
* Gamma curve correct lighting calculations.
* Deferred Rendering.
* 2 GPU Particle Systems.
* Upload remaining source code.
Controls
* The Arrow keys move the camera around the world, on the 'ground' plane
* The Insert and Page Up keys rotate the camera around the vertical axis. (Yaw)
* The Home and End keys move the camera closer/further away from the ground.
* The F2 key brings up graphical options.
Open Source
The Evoke 2.0 engine is completely open source. You are free to use the code in any way you like, modified, unmodified or copy and pasted into your own work. However, I expect you to respect these points:
* If you use an Evoke Engine source code file and its contents unmodified, or use a major part of the file, please credit the author and leave this note in the file.
* For use in anything commercial, please request my approval.
* Share your work and ideas too as much as you can.
"Africa time" or African time is a colloquial term used to describe a perceived cultural tendency, in some parts of Africa, toward a more relaxed attitude to time. This is sometimes used in a negative sense, about tardiness in appointments, meetings and events. The term is also sometimes used to describe the more leisurely, relaxed and less rigorously scheduled lifestyle found in these countries, especially as opposed to the more hectic, clock-bound pace of daily life in Western countries.
The concept has become a key self-criticism in modern Africa. According to one Ghanaian writer,
In October 2007, an Ivorian campaign against African time, backed by President Laurent Gbagbo, received international media attention when an event called "Punctuality Night" was held in Abidjan to recognize business people and government workers for regularly being on time. The slogan of the campaign is "'African time' is killing Africa - let's fight it." Reuters reported that "organizers hope to heighten awareness of how missed appointments, meetings or even late buses cut productivity in a region where languid tardiness is the norm." It was remarked that this year's winner, legal adviser Narcisse Aka--who received a $60,000 villa in recognition of his punctuality--"is so unusually good at being punctual that his colleagues call him 'Mr White Man's Time'".
The concept has become a key self-criticism in modern Africa. According to one Ghanaian writer,
In October 2007, an Ivorian campaign against African time, backed by President Laurent Gbagbo, received international media attention when an event called "Punctuality Night" was held in Abidjan to recognize business people and government workers for regularly being on time. The slogan of the campaign is "'African time' is killing Africa - let's fight it." Reuters reported that "organizers hope to heighten awareness of how missed appointments, meetings or even late buses cut productivity in a region where languid tardiness is the norm." It was remarked that this year's winner, legal adviser Narcisse Aka--who received a $60,000 villa in recognition of his punctuality--"is so unusually good at being punctual that his colleagues call him 'Mr White Man's Time'".
Run by the , the $100 Film Festival, originally the Calgary Independent Film Festival runs each March in Calgary.
Created in 1991 by the CSIF shortly after the Canada Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Calgary Region Art Foundation started funding arts-based filmmaking in the Calgary area, the $100 film festival has always encouraged local film projects, and exhibition of indigenous film.
The festival showcases the work of local and regional independent artists working with traditional film. Spanning 3 days, it showcases the work of local, national and international filmmakers. The festival started as a challenge for filmmakers to make a low budget movie (with Super 8 film) for under $100. In later years, the CSIF changed the rules to allow filmmakers to work with 16 mm film and increased the budget. However, the $100 Film Festival still works to embody the spirit of low-budget film making and has become a popular event in Calgary.
The 16th Annual $100 Film Festival will be hosted on March 13- 15, 2008, 7pm at the Plaza Theatre 1133 Kensington Rd NW
Created in 1991 by the CSIF shortly after the Canada Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Calgary Region Art Foundation started funding arts-based filmmaking in the Calgary area, the $100 film festival has always encouraged local film projects, and exhibition of indigenous film.
The festival showcases the work of local and regional independent artists working with traditional film. Spanning 3 days, it showcases the work of local, national and international filmmakers. The festival started as a challenge for filmmakers to make a low budget movie (with Super 8 film) for under $100. In later years, the CSIF changed the rules to allow filmmakers to work with 16 mm film and increased the budget. However, the $100 Film Festival still works to embody the spirit of low-budget film making and has become a popular event in Calgary.
The 16th Annual $100 Film Festival will be hosted on March 13- 15, 2008, 7pm at the Plaza Theatre 1133 Kensington Rd NW
thumb|right|250px|Scene from Get Polson featuring Simon Chapman and Jason Glover (2006).
Get Polson is a satirical short film made by Simon Chapman in 2006. Chapman developed the idea when his first short film, Hot Topic (2006), was not shortlisted for the finals of the short film competition Tropfest. The film is about two disgruntled film makers (one of whom is played by Chapman) who do not reach the Tropfest finals and decide to get even by "getting" Tropfest founder John Polson. After several abortive and humorous attempts the film ends with a surprising and unexpected development.