HyperBright

About

GitHub repo

This was a group project that we made for our Games Programming course. We created a driving game where the objective is to paint the most tiles with your color. You can collect pickups along the way to assist you or to cause setbacks your oppenents.

Contributions

Some of the main things that I contributed to the project were:

Creating a Rendering Pipeline

I created a simple to use rendering pipeline in OpenGL/C++ for our game engine. I made an IRenderable interface that a class could implement. All IRenderable objects would then be placed in a queue for the Renderer to render to the screen. I also created the shaders for the lighting and shadows.

Build System

We used CMake as our build system. I chose this because most of the external libraries that we needed were also using CMake, so this would make it easier to integrate them into our project. This also helped when I ported the game over to Linux as CMake is meant for cross platform compilation.

I also handled adding third-party dependencies as git submodules. This greatly reduced the size and complexity of our repo while also making it easy to upgrade the dependencies if required.

Modelling

All the models in the game I created using Blender, the popular 3D modelling software.

My Team

Of course I couldn't have made this project by myself. Some of the things my teammates made were:

• AI logic.
• Audio and music.
• Camera following.
• Font rendering.
• Map design.
• Physics (PhysX) engine integration.
• Vehicle handling tuning.