Oooh swanky! Nicely done, it looks cool!

How does the light work at a technical level? My guess is you calculate a set of projected vertices that construct a lit polygon and you render that.

I generate a polygon for the light volume and color that white(or w/e defuse color the light is). then each occulude within range of the light i generate a shadow mesh that consists of the object itself, plus an extruded mesh of what the light should be blocked. Their's a small issue where if the light is too close to the occulude then the shadow mesh might not extrude out far enough to block the entire light, but i'm not too worried at the moment.

I then draw the light into a seprate buffer, then draw all the shadowed meshs over top that light to create a light map, then i blend the lights together into their own buffer. and then multiply this light map with my game map.

I wanted to use stencils to mask the shadow area from the light so i didn't have to draw to separate buffer before copying into my light map, but i actually haven't implemented stencils into my directX renderer, and don't want to waste time right now doing so.

I also plan to testout how it'll look if the light map is at quarter and half scale's to reduce performance requirments from them, but right now i need to get my level editor up so things well actually look a bit prettier then the above :P

Ah I see, so it's virtually a full-blown lighting system! All the more impressive.

It's interesting seeing your take on the themes, almost like an "official" example of them in action ;-)

Good luck with the rest of it!

That looks really cool!

Ooh, that's impressive! (I'm somewhat of a fan of this sort of 2D shadowing; the description above of your algorithm was somewhat interesting.) ^_^

Good luck with the rest of the gameplay! ^_^