Spite: Into the Bog

On a mission to save the people from the malign swamp magic; Pontius is sent into the bog to cleanse the evil, atone for past sins and reconcile with his god.

Engine	People	Timeframe	Genre
Custom	11 5 Programmers 2 Level Designers 4 Graphical Artists	14 weeks (20h/week)	Dungeon Crawler

Engine	Custom
People	11 5 Programmers 2 Level Designers 4 Graphical Artists
Timeframe	14 weeks (20h/week)
Genre	Dungeon Crawler

A Diablo-esque game.

My main focus was on

Development of ECS
Collision management
Level loading pipeline with Unity

This game was made from scratch in our own custom developed engine using DirectX 11.

Table of Content

Flickering torch light

Particles

Particle editor

Non-graphical work

Enity Component System

Collision Management

Level Loading Pipeline

# Flickering torch light

To make the game feel more alive I made the torches' light in the game flicker.

A flickering torch.

# Particles

The particle pipeline is something I worked on during this project.

White circles used as particles.

# Particle Editor

I created a general particle editor to give artists control to create particles in the game. The settings for the torch in the above section is displayed in the image below.

Interface of the particle editor.

# Non-graphical work

I mostly worked behind the scenes in this project making little to no work that can be represented in images. I hope this page can be found interesting nonetheless.

# Enity Component System

As a learning experience and performance boost I developed an Entity Component System. This lead to fewer cache misses and an increase in performance.

# Collision Management

Every game requires collison of some sort. I decided to use simple sphere collision in this project since it is cheap and it suited our needs. Programmers can easily assign colliders to entities and also register which type of triggers they want to be able to interact with. Using this system it sped up the workflow of creating attacks for enemies as all we had to do was to assign a collider size and register the attacks the entity should be able to collide with.

# Level Loading Pipeline

Our level editor choice was Unity3D. This meant that the levels created in Unity had to be recreated in our engine. I wanted the pipeline to be as easy to use as possible for other people to work with. In order to achieve this I made a serializer script component in Unity that serializes all objects into a single .json-file with the push of a button. This includes basic information such as position, rotation, tags, name, but also specific component information such as values in a light component. Inside our custom engine I worked on deserializing the information with RapidJSON, a JSON parser for C++.

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