6DX


What is it? US
A 3D engine designed for role-playing games.
What computer or emulator will it run on?
Depends on the game.
Similar products
Irrlicht.

6DX was a product of Eldermage, mainly for an RPG project of theirs, Recluce (not Recluse, as it is often misspelled):

Recluce is an old school CRPG - That is, the emphasis is on story and character interaction rather than on combat like modern "Action-RPGs". Quests are designed to be completed by thinking, though resorting to bashing will work in many cases. Don't get us wrong, we all like a game of shoot-the-wumpus every now and then, but enough is enough.

Recluce was never finished, but Jacob Marner, a student of computer science at the University of Copenhagen, used it for his master thesis, Role Maker, a computer roleplaying game authoring system, in 2001.

Meanwhile, Eldermage is gone and 6DX is free and open source under the MIT license. The last update was 2005-02-15, when Half-Life model support was added to the engine. The project is probably dead.

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Last modified 2007-05-19