DirectX Game Engine

Three of my classmates and I were on our co-op work term in different cities, but we still decided to have some fun trying to write a DirectX game engine together. We held weekly meeting on Sundays using webcam and chat to get things done. We used perforce as our source control software and in the end of the project we were able to make a skeleton character walk and avoid obstacles by clicking somewhere on the screen.

The exact replication of our project tracking page is show below:

Goals

Project Goals (by March 13, 2004)

Game should be able to receive input via clicking on screen. Hero will walk according to translated map location and camera following our Hero.

Revised Project Goals (by March 20, 2004)

Have an AnimatedMesh moving towards a house (after mouse clicking on screen)… GameCamera following the Hero and perform collision detection to allow Hero to stop right in front of the house.

Project Goals (by March 27, 2004)

Integrate bounding sphere collision detection with quadtree detection. Hero can attack other units, other units will react when hit. Game Menus will be ready, be able to switch between game states. Should have Lighting and more models to work with.

Project Goals (by end first week of April)

Enemy units will be able to automatically initiate attack at the Hero. Have weather conditions. Have Level Editor. Units can go around things to reach destination.

Project Goals (end of term)

A person walking in a terrain hitting people; with menus; simple game logic;

Current Status

Game Engine has the following capabilities:

• Terrain rendering
• Animated mesh
• Animated Skybox and water
• Collision Detection with character moving around obstacles
• Camera Control
• Game Logic Interface
• Scene-Model-Texture Management
• Pick Ray - character movement controlled by mouse clicks

Team Members

• Danny Su
  
• Johnny Yip
  
• Brian Keng
  
• Felix Lo

Design

Main Components: Game Logic, Game Engine, Win32

Game Logic Modules

Pink: High Priority, Blue: Medium Priority

Major Components for Game Engine

Graphics Modules

Game Modules

Other Modules

Screenshots