The Zoom Engine

The game engine within PIE JACKERS contains several components, including:

Communication Manager

physically links multiple players and logically links autonomous gameplay objects.

Resource Manager

imports and manages a database of geometry, animation, sound, logic, physics, etc.

Physics Manager

calculates the dynamics and interactions among objects in the system.

Sound Manager

renders a dynamic 3D environment of multiple, synchronized, pitch-shifting sounds

Display Manager

organizes the visible world (3D and cartoon) and assembles the instantaneous view.

Render Engine

supports the Display Manager with pixel level rendering.

In sum, these components comprise the ZOOM Engine. All are pure Big Fun technology. They run in the Windows95 environment, and are built on the following standards:

• DirectDraw

• DirectSound

• DirectPlay

• DirectInput

• PCCTS parser generator