I was lurking through some small developer blogs when I came across this post from Hugo Smits (of Goodbye Galaxy Games):
So the gun is merely a pasted sprite, but is it even possible to have bump mapping on a DS?Hugo Smits said:Is this the first victim of the 3DS announcement ? It could be.
I was working on some new tech to support my next game. The following screenshots are taken from a regular Nintendo DS. It shows the Galaxy 2 Engine in action. It's a true 3D engine with some nice next-gen effects such as bump mapping.
(weapon and texture images are from the internet, and only used for the prototype).
I canned this prototype because I don't think there will be a market for this kind of game, now that the 3DS is coming. However, I thought the screens looked cool and I wanted to share them!