Title:Graphics

All of my design work was driven by passion. Looking in retrospect, the projects I did involved hard work, but it was soon forgotten, what's left behind were sweet memories and inspiration for many beginners.

Reverie started as a software engineering project at the University of Pretoria. It was done in 1999 by 5 final year computer science students.

But it was not an ordinary project. Besides winning the software engineering prize of the year, Reverie was in every way a full-scale computer game, featuring excellent game design, artwork, 3D engine programming and network play. It really pushed the development team to their very limits, especially when all of us were working with very limited time and budget.

At the end of the year 1999, Reverie was submitted to Milia 2000 multimedia student competition. Milia is a new multimedia conference held in Cannes, France.

The purpose of this page's existence is to encourage young people who are in the same position as us to explore your game development, graphics and programming talent.

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Reverie Cover

There has always been overwhelming demand by enthusiastic young people for more information of Reverie. Documenting a project of this size is not easy, especially when you have to make it accessible through the web. Here are the bits and pieces you can check out on my home page.

Official Website
We were not lazy about publicity and documentation. The official website of Reverie contains description of the game, the development team, multimedia files of the game, as well as research articles and our development diary. It is a valuable resource for beginners who want to team up and write computer games.

dreammill.com had been online for about one year and was closed down due to hosting costs. :(

Game Page
I used to maintain a little Game Page for myself in the first month of game development, before dreammill.com took over the web content. This page is in no way comparable to the official website in size. Though you can get a glimpse of the way we document our technical research.

Game Artwork
CD cover front93kb
CD cover back68kb
Some characters58kb
Main female character gazing stars97kb
Night scene105kb
Indoor scene63kb

Game Screenshots
Early screenshots149kb
Demo screenshot 136kb
Demo Screenshot 239kb

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