Adventure Game Engine

Description

The “Adventure Game Engine” is made for Point&Click Adventures. It includes the fundamental elements to create a game of this genre.

I implemented some of the game programming patterns I thought myself recently. The engine includes two external frameworks: SFML and rapidXML.

Used Framework: rapidXML
Read assets from drive via XML
Supported types of assets: sprites, sprite-maps, animations, sounds, fonts
Create game content combining provided assets and data stored in XML-file
Assets and Gameobjects are split to save up system resources using the “Flyweight-Pattern”

Used Framework: SFML
Render-Depth is determined by the order the objects are created
Custom Render-Layer for special purposes like text, which is drawn after the regular objects
Distance Scaling based on the player’s y-axis

The left mouse button performs default action on an object or a move action
The main character will tell details about an object, using the right mouse button
User Input and the progression of the game are decoupled using the “Game-Loop-Pattern”
Sequences are the main pillar to tell the narrative. An active sequence will take over the player’s control until it is finished. A sequence can perform the same action the player can do but contains multiple ones aligned in a row.

Each object has an update method that simulates only a single frame of behavior using the “Update-Method-Pattern”
Most of the classes do have a base-class to share data among them using the “Type-Object-Pattern”
The code domain each entity is in is isolated utilizing the “Component-Pattern”

If you like to know more about the project, proceed to the specific blog posts by clicking on: Adventure Game Engine (2018/2019)

Project Type
Third Semester Game Programming Assignment at Cologne Game Lab

Development Time & Current State
6 weeks – Finished

Platform
Windows 64 bit

Genre
Game Engine

Links
Git Repository

Team
Manuel Ott: Programming, Project Lead

My Accomplishments
Besides the framework I used, SFML and rapidXML, and the assets I “borrowed”, everything showcased is made by myself.

Tools
MS Visual Studio, Git

Language
C++