StoneHeart

High concept: StoneHeart is a 2D platform based shooting game, where the player has to go though the hazards of the level by making use of her different arrows.

Couses: GAM200 / GAM250

Instructors: Thomas Komair, Iker Silvano

Type: Team project

Language: C++

Engine: 2D data driven Entity Component System game engine built from scratch in C++. We used some external libraries such as OpenGL, Fmod, Json and stb image.

Download: http://games.digipen.edu/games/stoneheart

Accomplishments

Finalist – Best Student Game at Gamelab Barcelona 2016

Finalist – Best Basque Game at AzPlay 2016

Finalist – Best University Game at Fun&Serious 2016

Thanks to our nomination at the AzPlay we had the opportunity to make a presentation about the development process of StoneHeart, the presentation was recorded, you can see the video here. Latter we had the chance to do the presentation on the F&S, again, thanks to the nomination.

My roles: Lead Programmer & Engine Programmer

This was the first whole year project I did at DigiPen Bilbao, we worked on it during 8 months. I designed the whole engine and programmed most part of it. Apart from my programming tasks I scheduled the work for the programming team and coordinated with the artist team in order to meet the given deadlines.

These are some of the features I implemented for the engine:

Programmed most of the data driven Entity Component System 2D engine that powered the game.
Designed and implemented properties, special variables that will show themselves in the GUI and save/load if they where changed (Similar to what Unreal Engine or Unity do).
Developed an event system that was able to dispatch events to the whole world or send messages to specific entities.
Programmed a collision system that handled collisions between bounding volumes and tilemap.
Implemented 2D graphics pipeline including lighting and a special rendering for the tilemap using a mask so that the tiles did not create an obvious repetition.