Bopy's Puzzle Adventure + Runner Game

Context

These two games were created during a course module on low-level C++ programming and the creation of game tools and engines at SAE Institut Geneva in the 1st year of the Games Programming bachelor’s degree.

During the module, we learned how to manually load images, render text from a .ttf font file, decode and play audio files, save and read binary files and finally make a tilemap level editor. We also needed to make our game playable on the web by using Emscripten to compile our C++ to WebGL. Our game engine does not contain any dependencies except the MiniFB library for drawing on screen and stb_image header file

The two games we had to create served as a test of our game engine functionalities and as a sample to show off our skills.

Showcase

Runner Game

This first Game I made with my custom game engine is a simple runner game. Apart from the game music, which is a hand-decoded .wav file, all sounds were made manually by sending frequencies (Hz) to the computer speakers (e.g. 440Hz to make the note A)

Here is a short gameplay video of the game running on the web:

Bopy’s Puzzle Adventure

This Second Game I made with the custom game engine is a puzzle game where you have to create a path using the tilemap editor of my game engine. I found the idea of ​​reusing my level editor within the gameplay of the game very funny.

Here is a short video demonstrating my tilemap editor running on the web:

Here is a short gameplay video of the game running on the web:

What did I learn ?

• Programming in low-level C++
• Manually loading images
• Displaying text by decoding a .ttf file
• Decoding .wav files
• Creating a loop and assigning sound frequencies to a computer speaker
• Creating a tilemap editor from scratch
• Saving data in binary files
• Creating web builds for C++ projects using Emscripten