Windows Programs

These are some of my most recent applications, all centering on graphics or other aspects of programming I feel would be important in a career in game development.

• CDX

  This section contains programs written with CDX, a DirectX wrapper library. I am one of the maintainers of CDX, contributing code and actively participating on the mailing lists, helping new users get acquainted with CDX and game programming in general.
  Here is a description of CDX from www.cdxlib.com:

  CDX is a free GDK (Game Development Kit) which is comprised of a set of C++ wrapper classes for writing Windows games.  It is built on top of Microsoft Windows and DirectX technology and offers simple to use C++ wrappers for all aspects of game development. This includes things like sprites, tiles, scrollable maps, alpha blending and even 3D primitives (using Direct3D). CDX takes care of the low-level details of using DirectX, providing you with an easy to use toolkit for implementing your own games using simple yet flexible C++ classes. With only 2 dozen classes, CDX is quick to learn.

  • CDXTetris was written for the CDX community as an example of using the CDX libraries to write a simple game. Source is well commented and illustrates the use of basic input and graphics functions.
  • CDXConnection is a wrapper for Winsock, designed to allows a programmer to easily create client-server networked applications (specifically multi-player games), without having to deal with lower level calls to the WinSock API and network interfaces. CDXConnection is now part of the CDX library as an included add-on.
  • NetTacToe was written after CDXConnection as a rather trivial demonstration of the CDXConnection class.
  • Nettlers is a multi-player, networked implementation of Mayfair games' Settlers of Catan. This game is virtually completed, with only a few bugs left to be worked out. It is designed exclusively for network play by experienced players. A single player version and a help system will be added if Mayfair Games ever gives me permission to distribute the game. Currently runs best in 32-bit color.

  • The Borneo Project is my favorite and most elaborate project. It is a single player RPG styled after the early Final Fantasy games by Square Soft. Essentially, what I have designed is just a game engine in its current state. My team and I are still working on the story line and graphics. 100% of the programming has been done by myself. Please see the official homepage for the most recent demo and other information. The demo included here is the first official Demo released.

    This is a list of features currently in the game:

    • Full screen graphics programmed with CDX and DirectX
    • Almost all original artwork
    • Scripting Engine and Script Compiler (pre-compiles code to byte-codes).
    • Fully-featured Map Editor allowing the design of multi-layered levels, assignment of script actions to objects, and linking of maps.
    • Original semi-real-time battle system
  
  

• OpenGL

  Some of these programs were written before I got into DirectX, since OpenGL had more comprehensive tutorials available at the time.
  • MidiVis allows a functional, rather than symbolic, method of displaying musical data. As opposed to the traditional staff notation, it uses a spiral notation which gives a radius for each note in a scale, and each octave is represented as one ring farther away from the axis. Music is then animated over time. MidiVis is a good example of my work, tying in 3D graphics, sound, and a fairly extensive user interface.
    I have created both a DirectMusic and plain MIDI version. Depending on your sound card, one may perform drastically better than the other. Please see the official site for a lot more information and demo MIDI files.
  • Life is an MFC-based OpenGL implementation of the "Game of Life" artificial life algorithm
  • GLLandscapeViewer is a quick and dirty program written to display fractal landscapes generated by a friend's program. My program will work with any monochrome bitmap image as an input.
  • HAnim is a viewer that animates a high polygon-count model with texture mapping. Has the ability to export image sequences in order to create animation files. Includes full source code. Requires GLUT to run.
  
  

• Raw

  • RayTracer is my own raytracing engine that generates high quality, images from a script file that defines the environment and objects. The renderer uses OpenGL to display intermediate output. The renderer supports anti-aliasing, specular, diffuse and ambient lighting, reflection, transparency, and refraction. Examples images created (using models I made myself) : [image 1] [image 2]. Download includes full source code, example scenes and textures, and output images.