R-type is/was a sidescrolling shootem'up that was originally on the commodore 64 and a number of other computers, starting from 1988. Essentially it is what defined the genre...
http://www.mobygames.com/game/r-type
in any case it's just any class of sidescrolling shmup
Napoleon was building a 3d shmup (or as he called it 2.5d as the view never changes)... from one of his messages I gathered he came up with a system of reusing various mesh "pieces" to construct the background for various levels.
I guess I would need to do this, if I were to start this game.
Keith
http://www.mobygames.com/game/r-type
in any case it's just any class of sidescrolling shmup
Napoleon was building a 3d shmup (or as he called it 2.5d as the view never changes)... from one of his messages I gathered he came up with a system of reusing various mesh "pieces" to construct the background for various levels.
I guess I would need to do this, if I were to start this game.
Keith