A minimalist point and click game where you navigate through a house and unlock rooms to go to sleep.
For more information on the game engine itself and features, scroll to bottom.
A release for the demo game is available to play.
An example from the game showing the layered shader effects to create a unique "indie-style" look.
- Blinn-Phong and point lighting
- Bloom
- Posterization
- Edge-highlighting kernel effect
- Background and event-based audio
- 3D modeled-house, furniture, and small items
- Scene transitions
- Persistent inventory state
3D Game engine made in the University of Notre Dame's Advanced Game Development class in the Spring 2025 semester taught by Daniel Rehberg.
Engine abstracts away implementation details for simple API calls for potential game developer.
SDL environment for creating a general space for rendering graphics. This abstracts away OS specific window management, provides low-level access to I/O devices, and creates a rendering context for OpenGL
Uses self-made quaternion class for object rotations, preventing Gimbal lock.
Scene Graph that allows for parent-child transformation inheritance.
Uses DES (discrete-event simulation) model with initialization step and indefinite logic loop
Custom filetype for meshes:
- Interprets custom mesh filetype (or text file) in runtime
- Python script using BPY to export a mesh from Blender to the custom filetype or text file
- File includes:
- Vertex positions
- Vertex normals
- Texture UV coordinates
Uses OOP, inheritance, and polymorphism:
- Game Object and Scene classes with polymorphic potential
- Custom Game Object classes
- Storing an array of Game Objects (including custom Game Objects) to be managed by engine.
- Abstract game object class can arbitrarily and interchangibly change meshes and textures.
Reads and compiles custom shader programs in runtime.
- MVP transformation in shaders
Deferred Rendering:
- FBO class for creating custom framebuffers
- Allows for multiple render passes and framebuffers
- Can attach an arbitrary number of textures
Various shader and post processing effects:
- Blinn-Phong lighting
- Point lighting with arbitrary number of lights
- Bloom
- Posterization
- Edge-detecting and highlighting image processing kernel
Audio Rendering:
- Automatically manages audio device
- Event-driven, object-based playback
- Multiple sounds, with volume control and looping
- Allows for both pre-loaded and dynamically loaded audio
3D rigid body simulation
- time integration of position, velocity, and acceleration, both linear and angular.
Collisions and Event-Driven Interactions
- Uniform grid spatial hierarchy that reduces collision testing to less than
$O(n^2)$ - Broad-phase collision detection through axis-aligned bounding boxes (AABB)
- Narrow-phase collision detection on convex shapes through Gilbert-Johnson Keerthi (GJK) algorithm
- Returns true on collision, minimum distance between objects on no collision
- User provided function runs on collision between object types for event-driven interation.
Uses SDL, OpenGL, and other support libraries.
- SDL2-2.30.11
- glew-2.1.0
- GLM 1.0.1
- freeglut 3.0.0-1.mp for MSVC