High Concept:
A fast paced capture the flag game, with an emphasis on building and keeping momentum.


Team:

Tech Director:	Craig Williams
Producer:	Raymond Davidson
Designer:	Ernesto Hernandez
Physics:	Patrick Hayes

Responsibilities:
As the Technical Directory for the project, I was mainly responsible for the architecture and graphics engine development. A large portion of my time was spent on building a high performance engine with very low system requirements.

Engine Architecture:

• Component Based
• Object Factory
• Integrated Memory Debugger

Graphics Engine Features:

• Scripted Rendering Pipeline
  • Custom scripting language with built in syntax and error checking
  • Enabled support for a wide variety of hardware configurations, including video cards without GLSL support.
  • Allowed for graphical effects to be tested and debugged without recompilation
  • Supports multiple rendering passes, pixel buffers, and GLSL shaders
  
  
• OpenGL
  • OpenGL 1.1 and 2.0 support
  • GLSL Shaders support
  
  
• Model Cache
  • Guarantees a model is loaded only once
  • Drastically decreased memory usage
  • Reduced loading times
  
  

Tools:

• OpenType Font Converter
  • Custom file parser
  • Generates a outline font and then tessellates the outline into a engine friendly format
  
  
• .x Model File Converter
  • Custom file parser with full template support
  • Converts .x files to a engine friendly format with animation support
  
  

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