Red is The enemy

Description

“Red is the enemy” is a 3D game project where we write a custom game engine primarily with c++, limited 3rd party libraries and rendering API. The project spans over 2 semester(6 months) and is completed in a group of 9.

Role / What I worked on

For this project, I was the tech lead and I worked primarily on

Engine architecture

ECS
Templated
sparse sets
groups
delegates
hierarchy
prefabs

Serialization

Binary serialization with cereal
Json serialization with rapidjson
reflection with properties

Resource Management

File manager
dds texture compression with nvidia texture tools
Fbx models with assimp

Renderer

OpenGL
Textures
Deffered Shading
SMAA
PBR with IBL
Bloom
SSAO
Shadows
Instancing
Batching
Shader pipeline
particles(billboard and sprite animation)
OIT
Vignette

Embedding Scripting Language

C#
mono

Editor

ImGui
Scene Graph
Inspector
Viewport
Profiler
File viewer

Gameplay

Gun bobbing
Gun muzzle flash
Enemy Explosion VFX
bullet impact VFX
bullet trail vfx
Smoke particles
Death screen
Add lighting

What I learnt

For this project, I was responsible for developing multiple key features for the game engine, which helped me gained a lot more technical skills and knowledge compared to my other projects.

However, I believe the project could have done better if I did not need to develop this many key features.

In my opinion, the issue was that some of the programmer’s programming efficiency was not on the same level, which in itself is not an issue as development teams often have programmers with different level of skill, but because we also did not conduct any code review or knowledge sharing, which led to a lot of issue such as bugs, code with poor performance, code that was hard to understand, or all of the above.

At that time, I felt the most efficient way of solving this issue was to either redo the code or take over the key feature completely.

In retrospect, I should have tried to convice my team the importance of code review and sharing our research so everyone had a better understanding of the codebase and have the ability to handle key features.

Screenshots of gameplay

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