Geometrymancer computer graphics academic project

When: 

September 2012 – November 2012

Made as an academic project for the course of 3d Animation and Vizualization at IST.

Role: 

Gameplay & Graphics Programmer

Team: 

Me, Hugo Gonçalves, Rita Tomé

Made With:

Summary

A survival strategy game built for an academic project and also my second go at programming a graphical engine using OpenGL.

It’s mostly aimed as a tech experiment rather than a finished game. Featuring Skyboxes, Particle Effects and a simple physics engine.

As a Geometrymancer you can conjure geometric shapes to fight at your side. But having this power is more a curse than a blessing, as you are the envy of the black cylinders.

In this strategy game you control a tetrahedron called Geometrymancer and your job is to survive as long as possible against the never ending horde of cylinders. Collect vertices and summon your minions to defend you. How long can you last?

My Contribution

During development of this project, apart from working on a lot of small details here and there, the two features I was responsible for were:

• Heightmap Builder, implemented a tool that loads a heightmap from an image raw file and build the game terrain from the brightness values of each pixel. Prepared to render the map at various definitions to accommodate varying levels of detail.

• Scene Manager, implemented a Scene Manager class to facilitate the loading of menus or in-game scenes without having to worry about all the details of the inner application. Simply prepare a Scene object, load it with the desired objects and use the change Scene method. Everything will be replaced, memory will be freed and the new objects will be connected to all the application’s listeners and it’s game loop.

• Base10
• All
• Galactic Movers