Time Master
Overview: In a team of 4, mainly graphics and engine programmers, we tried to make a time manipulation first person shooter game using our engine(DX11 rendering pipeline). The idea is to kill the opponent in 2 ways. First, the player knows the location of the opponent's phantom and kills them in their own time. Second, the player chooses to reverse back in time and kill the opponent's phantom in their time. There are currently two modes - single and multiplayer, which the players can use to familiarize with the environment or fight each other in a 1v1 deathmatch. As this was only a semester long collaborative project, our postmortem includes the points that we feel can be improved towards our engine. In addition, as the focus was to make an efficient decent quality engine, our plan was to build an engine that serves as a tool to other games in similar genre.
Key points (including engine and graphics):
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The engine is based off Microsoft DirectX11 pipeline.
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Basic I/O controls with keyboard and mouse. This is correlated with camera movement of our character.
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The engine supports basic scene graph.
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Asset and resource managers are responsible for handling the resources and passing them as core representative handlers.
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Few graphical features include sky box, lighting (point and directional), basic mesh and materials (textures).
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Support for basic UI.
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The game features bullets as emitter system. It comprises of various sub systems which make one single effect.
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The emitter system is a hybrid of CPU-GPU computation. The tasks are managed and divided based on sharing the load between the two systems which not only makes it efficient but also gives control over our time manipulation logic.
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All the effects are time manipulated and can be controlled by the player.
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