Kasei

Kasei was an action combat demo designed to test Elium`s combat systems and the general functioning of eEntity in a controlled, completed environment. It included AI controlled enemies, full audio/music, fully integrated physics engine, ragdoll, HDR/Bloom, dual renderpaths (DX7 and PS2.0), and a basic implementation of the intended Elium combat system. The demo linked above was the final version of Kasei, and what we submitted to a gamedev.net competition, where it made it past first-tier voting but ultimately lost to a few infinitely more polished games.Elium and Kasei were where eEntity, the engine that would later power Idyllon and Wild Vines, was first born. It was built around Nebula Device 2, a rendering/kernel engine that at the time lacked any kind of game or higher level engine (it has since been updated with a game engine named "Mangalore," which bears no relation to eEntity). At the time of Elium and Kasei, eEntity`s notable features included:* low-level script integration (which is capable of almost every operation of which compiled eEntity is capable)* dynamic run-time object Assembly/disassembly by sum of pre-compiled eEntity "components"* dynamic construction of entirely script-based components by way of components created to allow such* geoclipmap-style LOD heightmap terrain (capable of extremely long view ranges, as seen in Kasei and test shots)* modern HDR-style rendering, positional sound, skinnable gui, etc* ODE physics integration (ragdoll, physically accurate player movement and force application, fast-moving projectiles, etc)* a custom animation system capable of blending any number of animations on any collection of bones in the skeleton independently (controlled through a user/artist-friendly system)* a completely dynamic gradient sky and light flare system with weather