Code Examples

Tomfoolery for your computer!

I've been coding seriously since about the year 2000, starting with the PC version of Blitz Basic and an ancient version of Turbo Pascal on the computers in the Highschool IT labs, then moving to C and C++ around 2003-04. Currently I'm working on producing a working 2D graphics engine-2D physics engine combo, based on SDL and OpenGL, for use in a couple of my own game designs. I'm also working on implementing the Liquid Simulation technique from my thesis in said engine.

PLEASE NOTE: All programs are win32 (windows) applications. If the top-right "X" button does not exit out of the program, please press "Escape".

Early Stuff

Blitz Basic

This began as an altered version of some example code in the Blitz examples folder, and ended up as a mini space game with almost none of the original code. Note that this is version six; version seven just had better movement physics, but I misplaced it in between several computer upgrades.

Merc.

2003-2005

C/C++

Uni stuff, as well as concept demos based on early versions of my current game designs.

Playing with splines.

Particle systems.

Starfield test.

Uni assignment involving the famous OpenGL teapot.

My End-Of-Year project. A limited gameplay demo of the game design which has now morphed into Starflight.

2006

C++

Things done for my Thesis and personal projects, using OpenGL and SDL.

Tests of a animation-frame-division system, using 3D hardware (via OpenGL) to accelerate 2D drawing.

Early test of the collision system for my liquid simulation system. I ended up concentrating on theory due to a lack of time (mostly due to the four hours travel a day and other commitments), and said theory eventually used a different and more accurate system (line intersection), so this was abandoned. However, it works to a degree, so here it is.

Various collision method tests - Line-line intersection, line-circle intersection, circle-line collision.

2007

C++

Personal stuff

A class designed to find the indices of all instances of a given string in a text file. Takes a pointer to a filename string, a pointer to the string to find, a pointer to an empty STL list of longs which will hold the indices and a pointer to an unsigned integer representing the amount of memory the class may use in bytes.