rtChess - A Realtime Ray-Traced Chess Game
rtChess is still a work-in-progress, but it is advancing at a rapid rate.
Shown below are small images of the game, as it is today. You can click on the small images to see a full size image.
2001-Aug-21 The game screen. Raytraced in realtime. Some of the pieces have been improved, as well as the board frame.
2001-Aug-21 The options screen, with the game in the background. The game pauses while the options screen is visible.
Instructions for Game Download
Windows 9x/NT/2K
rtchess-1.0.1.zip (632.82KB)
Simply click on the zip file to begin downloading the game. Once download is complete, use winzip or another unzip program to extract the files. To run rtChess, just double click on the file rtChess.exe. Detailed game instructions are provided in the file help.html, which is included with the game. The help file features the rules of chess, and how to operate rtChess, as well as a description and picture of each, piece and how it can be moved.
Linux
rtchess-1.0.1.tar.gz (549.30KB)
Extract the program using "gzip -dc rtchess-1.0.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -".. Change into the rtchess directory, and run rtchess. Detailed game instructions are provided in the file help.html, which is included with the game. You must have [http://libsdl.org SDL] 1.2 installed in order to play.
More Information
Documentation is included in the download. One thing that should be mentioned is that after you start the game, you can get to the menu by pressing the spacebar.
In case you want to know who to blame for this, they are Paul Kahler and Ray Kelm.
