City Builder Using a From Scratch Low-Level C++ Game Engine

Context

This group project was carried out 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.

The aim was to continue developing our from scratch game engine that we had started at the beginning of the same course module. The city builder was a pretext for adding new features to the game engine such as: Rule tiles for our tilemap editor, Hot Reload, data serialization and a bit of multithreading for the game’s IAs.

I was personally in charge of the graphic code, such as the game’s camera and UI as well as the hot reload system.

Showcase

Here is a gameplay video of the game:

Here is a video demonstration of the game engine’s Hot Reload system:

What did I learn ?

• Low Level C++ Programming
• Hot Reload for Windows applications
• Linear Algebra to create a Camera
• Implementing and using ImGUI
• Basics of multithreading