Platform Shooter Game Prototype

by Nathan Farnum

Description

A 2.5D video game prototype (written in C++ / GLUT / OpenGL) involving simple collision detection, an animated, hierarchically modelled main character (made from an .obj file made by, Cristopher Lagmay, an Art 384 student), bullet-shooting, single point light (with phong shading) with dynamic shading, and a camera that follows the main character (putting the main character a tad to the left for ease of seeing what comes ahead).

Features

• Your hero: Isaac de Light!
• Your enemies: Umbrans, the dark spirits!
• An HP Bar tracks Isaac's 10 HP, going from green to yellow to red
• Full Phong Lighting
• Camera follows the main characters left and right movement
• Isaac is hierarchically modeled
• Isaac has an idle position, running animation, and shooting animation
• Gravity-based jumping
• Platform collision detection (~still a bit buggy~)
• 3 bullets allowed on screen at a time
• Dynamic shading:
• Shading of platforms gets darker with time.
• Shooting enemies increases platform brightness.
• Umbrans become less shaded the less HP they have.
• Isaac becomes more shaded the less HP he has.
• Last enemy has over 30 HP!
• Controls:
• 'a' and 'd' keys move Isaac left and right.
• Space Bar to jump.
• 'j' to shoot a bullet.

Pictures

Sources

• Cristopher Lagmay - creator of Isaac's model
• Grant Plaster - Object file loader
• KeyBoard Up Function - It is not listed on OpenGl.org, so looked it up here