Dungeon Keeper 2

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Engine

• lighting: dynamic, colored; fireballs
• particle effects: chicken feathers, explosions, fire, gas, gold shimmer, smoke, spells
• reflection: environmental bumpmapping (lava, water)
• texture filtering: bi-/trilinear
• other: camera shaking, deformable terrain

Atmospheric/environmental effects

• dust: ground/walls during tremor spells
• smoke: fire, lava
• water: waves
• other: decaying bodies (rot, flies), doors open/close automatically, dungeon hearts beat (incrementally increase, hiss, and steam with damage), fire, gas (fart, poison), lightning ("thunderbolts"), training room dummies react to hits, tremor spells weaken barricades, doors, and walls), wooden bridges burn from lava

Character

player character

• character: dungeon keeper, any unit in possession mode
• moves: attack (possession mode), build, pick up/drop, slap
• view: 1st-(possession, some units have infrared)/3rd-person
  • rotate/pan/zoom

NPCs

• demons, dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, goblins, humans (guards, heroes, knights, "Lords of the Land", maidens, mistresses, monks, rogues, thieves, warlocks, wizards), imps, salamanders, skeletons, trolls, vampires
• non-threatening: chickens, fireflies, rats
• AI: afraid of fear traps, collect gold, eat, moods (if not kept fed and entertained, units will get upset and leave dungeon), party, sleep, train fighting/spells
• imps: build things, move crates/gold/traps

Environment

• location: underground
• level editor: yes
• puzzles: collect gold/mana, torture units
• traps/hazards: traps (alarm, boulder, fear, fireburst, freeze, gas, jack-in-the-box, lightning, sentry, spike, trigger)

Interaction

• break: boulders, doors, traps, walls
• build: barricades, bridges (wooden, stone), doors (braced, magic, secret, steel, wooden), rooms (casino, combat pit, graveyard, guard room, hatchery, lair, library, portal, prison, temple, torture chamber, training room, treasure room, workshop)
• pick up/drop: gold, units
• other: lock/unlock doors

Other

• map: 2D, real-time
• multiplayer: modem, LAN, TCP/IP
• sound: A3D, EAX, stereo