BSP Texturing

Our initial goals for our engine were to support BSP maps which is the format used by Quake, as it allowed us to leverage the capabilities of Quake level editors. A teammate of mine set up parsing for BSPs then by looking through old Quake source code and wikis I was able to use the Quake colour palette to correctly parse and load the textures for the environment and map them to the parsed BSP data.

TO BE EXPANDED

Flower Enemy

I worked together with artists to control the animation so that the flower would target the player if they entered a certain range. The light inside the flower is programmatically implemented so that artists can change the settings. The light shines through because of subsurface scattering. This was the first time I worked with enemy behaviour before, so I had some struggles initially, but by testing out the capabilities of Unreal Engine, I discovered how to make it work as designers intended.

Environmental Transformation

I worked on a gameplay system that would allow the player to transform the cursed environment into a flourishing environment. We took inspiration from Kena, for this aspect of the game. I used shader techniques to make the flowers grow and dynamically change colours. I also implemented the gameplay camera transition to give the player a clear view of what is happening. I also added the growing ring to indicate the borders of the transformation and to give it more visual flair.

Full Playthrough

This project was my first time working with vector graphics. I decided to customise my graphics by making them different than the original game. This includes the alphabet which I created myself by plotting the vectors. The split asteroids are created by dividing the polygons into smaller pieces.

Convex Polygon Generation

I decided to make my asteroids' shapes randomised by generation convex polygons. So, I created a simple algorithm which uses a random angle to determine how much a vector should be rotated. Then we randomly set the length between a certain range.

Collision Detection

I implemented collision detection for my generated convex polygons. The ship turns blue when collision is detected. This was done by determining if the ship lies within a certain radius of the centerpoint of the asteroids.