Masters Game Engine Project

ABOUT

This project is my university masters project. The aim is to create an game engine that supports Physics and C# Scripting from scratch in C++ and the use of libraries.  The main graphics API in use is DirectX 11, I have implemented this with a static class and abstraction too allow other APIs to be implemented at a later date.

Pico Music Controller

ABOUT

The Pico Music Controller is a project that turns a Raspberry Pi Pico into a USB device for controlling Spotify. The Pico commuicates with a desktop app to make calls to the Spotify Web API.

The Pico and microcontrollers attracts a lot of hobbyists, its a hobby for me. So I decided to keep the code as simple as I can while keeping each stage of the development process on branches, for even more simplicity. I have done this in the hopes that the hobbyiest can further develop from this project and fully understand everything that is going on. The project does everything I would like it too, I could keep going adding more features, but it achieved my goals and I am very happy with it.   

I developed this project to solve some minor annoyances I had. I always use Spotify when programming and developing. Every time I want to pause/play, skip the song, or adjust the volume, I would have to open the Spotify App, which takes you out away from programming, my keyboard does have media controls, which kind of off solves the problem,  however changing the volume, still requires opening Spotify, since the media volume controls overrides the system sounds and sometimes if there is a video in the background the media controls controls the video instead of Spotify. This project has solved those issues. Every time I use the buttons connected to the Pico and it controls my Spotify, I have the biggest smile.   

TODO List + Server

ABOUT

TODO List is a project that contains three projects, a C++ front end (Pictured above), a NextJS  Web App and a C++ Server with a MySQL database. The Projects can be found in the Github Link Below

I had the idea for this project when I had covid, its a small and simple project. So naturally I found a way to complicate it and made it a project for learning, this is how  the server side and a web front end was born. The two front ends communicate with the server through HTTP Requests to retrieve, update, and manage the users to-do lists and tasks. 

The project integrates Google OAuth 2.0 for user authentication. The two front ends login into google to be able to access the lists and tasks that belong to them. Upon Login, the apps collect only the user's email, first name and google ID. The email and google ID is used to ensure that users can only access their own lists and tasks. Collecting the first name, allows the app to create a welcome with the users name.

I want to revisit this project, to implement WebSocket's, encryption and data synchronisation 

Sandbox Project

ABOUT

This project has been designed to develop my skills as a programmer and game developer. The aim is to make a project that can be used to develop systems and features found in all areas of game development, the project will be used to develop other projects. I am taking a modular approach which means that each project created using the sandbox project will work with each other. Essentially it is a basic game engine that will develop over time, experimenting with lots of different system.

The first and current task is to implement DirectX 12. 

Unreal engine WIP

ABOUT

This project has been designed to develop my skill as a programmer and game developer. The aim of the project is a delivery simulator. The idea is very simple, the player picks up a package and delivers it. This simple game loop allows me to explore and develop lots of different areas of game development, from player movement to vehicle physics to AI. 

I started this project by creating a quick delivery system, which I can build and improve later. But first is to build a small prototype city. I have started to implement this with a wave function collapse algorithm, which is currently set up with tiles that look like a Tetris block. I plan to experiment with the wave function collapse with other proc gen techniques or to replace it, to have a less grid like city, but for a prototype, wave function collapse is perfect.  

Intersteller Frog

•  University 
•  Masters 
•  Complete
•  Team 

ABOUT

This Project is my Team Masters Project. Our aim was too create an FPS Game with a frog in a mech. I was responsible for the AI, drops and pick ups.

Untitled Fencing Game

•  University 
•  Masters 
•  Completed 
•  Assignment 

ABOUT

This project was made for an assignment, we were tasked with making a game in a week. I used this opportunity to bring my two worlds together, Fencing and game dev. I have always wanted to make a fencing game, I finally have. The game is very simple, there is balls flying towards you, that you must stab to score points. There are bombs that fly towards you that you can dodge. Three misses or hit by a bomb then it's game over. I had learnt a lot with this project especially with using animation in Unreal Engine

In the final two days,  I attempted to make this game into a rhythm game, two days was definitely not enough time, to have a functional rhythm game, however I decided to try and hardcode it, which should be simple enough but I had a problem, with these games, the song position (Song time) is very important but for some reason it was not consistant which meant the blocks to hit, was out by as little as .1 or as big as 100. So I ended up running out of time and focusing on the main game.

Before the assingment release, I knew I wanted to create a fencing game, so I got the mixamo mannequin and animated it myself in Blender. I also created each weapon myself.  I am definitely more of a programmer than a 3D artist

Broom racer Prototype

•  University 
•  Masters 
• Completed

ABOUT

This project was made for an assignment where the task was to make a prototype. After being inspired by a game, I decided to change my orginally idea for this project to a racing game on a broom stick. 

I had so many ideas for this project and since it was a prototype for an assignment, I had to make sure that the game fit the requirements. I would love to come back to this prototype and continue to develop it to how I want. This would start of by completely redoing the flying mechanics since at the moment it is very clunky. 

One of my favourite parts of this project is something that cannot be seen from the gameplay, I created a track creation actor, which allowed me to use a spline to create the track and to spawn the start, checkpoints and finish line at begin play or in the editor. This meant that I didn't have to spend ages placing all the actors, since I am not a level designer. The picks up also work in a similar way on the splines but cannot be spawned in editor

Vehicle Sim

•  University 
•  Year 3 
•  Completed 

ABOUT

This project is my final year project, I was playing racing simulations a lot during Covid, so this inspired my project to create a vehicle simulator from scratch using DirectX 11 and PhysX 4, this meant I had to create the base engine myself. This was my biggest and most difficult project I had done, with many ups and downs, eventually I had a complete project. I learnt so much from this project, especially from all the mistakes and errors. The mistakes inspired my masters game engine project to put all I had learned into practice.

KSTL

•  In Progress 

ABOUT

This project is my version of the C++ Standard Library and is just for fun. The purpose of this project is not to replace the standard library but to understand how everything works and to further my knowledge of C++ 20 and the standard library. 

Maze Race

•  Personal 
•  Game Jam 
•  Completed 

ABOUT

This project was for Rising Star 2021. They provided two templates to choose from one being in Unity and the other In UE4. Since I had more experience in unity and very little UE4 experience, I took the risk and used UE4. By the time of submission, I did not have a fully working game since the idea I had was way too out of scope. 

Drone Prototype

•  University 
•  Year 3 
•  Completed 
• Assignment

ABOUT

This project was for a year 3 university assignment. The aim of the assignment was to create a third person shooter mini game using C++ and unreal, there was a list of 26 mechanics/features to be implemented. The game has 5 levels that get harder as you play. Every time you die you restart to level one however there is a level select.

Computer Space Clone

•  Personal 
•  Completed 

ABOUT

In my foundation year of university I had to do a presentation of my choice, I chose to do it on the history of video games. This inspired me to recreate Computer Space in unity, which took less than week to do. Computer Space is a clone of the first video game arcade machine developed in 1971 a year before the popular game pong was released. Computer space was developed by Nutting Associates and Atari, inc.

 

Range Shooter

•  Personal 
•  Completed 

ABOUT

This is a game I created when I was 16, since my game development class in college was only teaching us html using Youtube videos, I took upon myself to stop following unity tutorials and create my own game, which then Range Shooter was born (very original). I plan to come back to this game and recreate it since my knowledge has increased immensely since.