Snowboard Carving

Evan Peterson
Cal Poly, CPE-471, Winter 2014

Description

Help the penguin carve his way through slalom gates and boost down the mountain in style.

This is a simple game written in C++ using OpenGL for graphics and GLFW for windowing and gamepad support.

It demonstrates the following:

• A Fair Amount of Linear Algebra for Model Transforms
• Hierachical Modeling
• Simple Texture Mapping
• Snowboarding Penguins
• Model Animation
• Full-Phong Shading
• Gamepad Analog Input

Rules of Play

XInput Controller (anything that behaves like an XBox controller):

• Left Analog Stick to carve
• A button to boost

• A and D keys to carve
• W key to boost

1. Move through slalom gates to charge up the boost.
2. Boost to go fast.
3. Go fast and move through slalom gates to keep going fast.

Gallery

Carving left


Carving right


Board lights up slightly to show some boost is available


Board is fully charged! Let's boost!

References

• GLFW Getting Started Guide

Download

Here's a download link. Under ideal conditions (i.e. the laptop I developed it on), the game runs on Linux. You'll want to have GLFW and its dependencies installed to run and compile the game.

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