Mac Pac - OpenGL 3D Pac Man
One subject I undertook during my masters degree was 'Game Programming'.
This subject required us to understand the various concepts of game development from rendering, physics and gameplay.
The game I wrote was an adaptation of pacman but in 3D - MacPac.
MacPac was a great framework for me to present my understanding of game programming. Some of the features that I
focused on when developing MacPac were:
- Loading models from the COLLADA format.
- Triangulation of the models on load and stored in vertex streams favoured by OpenGL
- Application of a novel spline implementation
- Separate render and game time synchronisation
- The implementation of a unique adaptive Quad/OctTree technique for rendering and broad-phase collision
- Model, View, Controller paradigm
- A* path finding for the active enemies, visualisation of the A* paths
- Active enemies with various visual and behavioural states
- The use of a finite state machine for the states of the enemies
- Dynamic and static lighting
- LUA scripting and console
- Integration of Objective-C with common C++ libraries
Download the source or the assignment reports: Assignment 1, Assignment 2 and Assignment 3.
Following is some of the images that were rendered with OpenGL.
I received a mark of 98% for this subject.See Other Marks.
