mlshort / Asteroids

Grad school Adv Game Development project. Implemented primitive physics engine with collision detection and thrust vectoring. Further integrated use of XBOX input game controller.

Asteroids: Final Project

Directory Structure

+-- Asteroids (Solution File)
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    +-- Readme.md (this file)
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    +-- Documentation (mlshort.Asteroids.pptx (project presentation))
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    +-- Bin (Asteroids[_x64][D].exe)
    |   |
    |   +-- Assets
    |       |
    |       +-- Audio (wav files)
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    +-- Code (Source Code Root Directory)
    |   |
    |   +-- Game (Game Source Code) (Project file)
    |   |   |
    |   |   +-- Resources (RC files)
    |   |       |
    |   |       +-- Audio (wav files)
    |   |
    |   +-- Engine (Engine Source Code) (Project file)
    |       |
    |       +-- Core (Actor2, IRenderable)
    |       |
    |       +-- Math (Vector2, Random, MathUtils)
    |       |
    |       +-- Renderer (AABB, Renderer, Texture)
    |       |
    |       +-- Utility (DebugUtils, TimeUtils)
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    |-- Lib (Game Engine Static Library : Engine[_x64][D].lib)
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    +-- Obj (compile time intermediaries objects)
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    +-- Third Party
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        +-- stbi (Solution File) (Project File) (stbi Source Code)

Doxygen Generated Project Documentation

Project Enhancements

1. Source Code Repository (Visual Studio Team Services)

2. Windows Unicode Compliant

3. Compiles/Deploys in:

   • Win32 Release Mode
   • Win32 Debug Mode
   • x64 Release Mode (not fully tested)
   • x64 Debug Mode (not fully tested)

4. Intergrated use of XBox Controller (via XInput API)

5. Development and use of seperate Game Engine library

   • Primitive Physics Engine
   • Math
     • Vector2 (2D vector class template)
     • Random (STL Mersiene Twister random number abstraction)
   • Renderer (OpenGL abstraction)
     • Texture (OpenGL/stbi abstraction)
     • AABB (optimized collision detection)
   • Utility
     • TimeUtils (Windows performance counter abastraction)

6. Component Compile-Time product versioning

   • Asteroids\ProductVer.h
   • Asteroids\Code\Game\Resources\Asteroids.rc2
   • Asteroids\Code\Game\AsteroidsVersion.h
   • Asteroids\Code\Engine\EngineVersion.h

7. Use of various C++11/14 features

HOW TO USE:

'A' || 'Left' || 'DPad Right' || 'LThumb' direction - Rotates ship counter-clockwise
'D' || 'Right' || 'DPad Left' || 'LThumb' direction - Rotates ship clockwise
'W' || 'Forward' || 'DPad UP' || 'LThumb' magnitude - Causes ship to thrust forward
'O'                                                 - Random Asteroid Destroyed
'L'                                                 - Creates New Large Asteroid
'P' || 'Start'                                      - Re-spawns Ship
'T'                                                 - Direction Overlay (for diagnostics)