Sleepless Bayou

MANAGEMENT POSITION

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• Acted as Technical Lead for programmers on the team.

• Organized, produced, and managed tasks for the technical team.

• Assisted other programmers on engine and system interface.

• Point of communication for Art and Design Leads.

• Created team’s Technical Design Guide

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PROGRAMMER POSITION

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GameObject Manager and Template Components:

• Created a gameobject manager which controls the creation and destruction of all gameobjects, as well as updating all gameobjects each gameloop.

• Gameobjects are controlled by their individual components.

• Created template component class for the following instances: Behavior, Animation, Collider, Physics, Sprite, and Transform components.

• Implemented class functionality for each component including creation/destruction, updating, and custom class variables.

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Behavior Manager:

• Implemented Behavior class for all gameobjects which allows custom gameplay mechanics to be created inside a behavior and added to a gameobject. Behaviors are able to manipulate a GameObject’s position, animation, collision, interaction with other gameobjects, and key-bound behaviors.

 

Graphics Engine (Render, Shader, Mesh, Texture):

• Used OpenGL to create a render class and manager which handles the creation and destruction of the renderer, initialization, as well as updating the render frame each gameloop.

• Created OpenGL shader class which handles creation/destruction of the shader, initialization, and use of the shader.

• Implemented OpenGL mesh rendering which reads in mesh data, handles mesh creation/destruction, and draws a mesh with its partner texture.

• Implemented texture class which handles loading images and sprite sheets, as well as their creation/destruction.

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Fishing Behavior:

• Implemented behaviors on the Player Character, the player’s boat, and the player’s fishing bobber. This controlled the operation of the object’s animations, as well as switching between animations on an 8-directional path.

• The player switches between sitting in the boat, casting out their line, fishing, and reeling in their fish, all along the 8-directional path. I programmed seamless transitions between each animation and its corelating direction.

• Created behavior for cattails which slow down the player’s boat when they drive through them.

• Implemented the boat’s main light source to follow the rotation of the boat but with an offset towards the front of the boat.

• Implemented the boat's splash which triggers and loops every time the player drives the boat.

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Fog Wall:

• Implemented a looping Fog Wall which rolls across the game camera and seamlessly restarts without notice.

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Enemy Behavior:

• Implemented the animations for the Bayou Beasts attacks. Including moving in 4 directions and switching between different animation sets depending on the enemy state.

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Camera:

• Created the camera class and behavior which follows to player and is bound to the game map.

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Colliders and Collider Manager:

• Implemented Circle, Box, and Line colliders that can be attached to gameobjects.

• Each collider has a customizable size (radius, length, width).

• Collider manager controls all interactions between colliding gameobjects and invokes their subsequent functions if one exists.