Covenant of Ash
A single-player turn based tactics game where you control four characters to defeat the enemy group in combat.
1 player.
Created as part of my university course's final year for the PlayStation 5.
My Contribution:
This game was made as part of a group project for my Computer Science for Games university course.
Programming
The features I programmed into the game are:
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Units
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Unit stats (displaying in the stats UI and reading them from JSON)
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Selecting units with the bumpers.
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Animations
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I created rotation based animations.
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When units win, they spin in place.
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Attack and Hurt animations that rotate the unit towards/away from the attack.
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Actions
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The ability to select actions for a unit.
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Action Points that each action requires.
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Action Point cost calculation for the grid movement.
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I wrote the attack action code in Lua.
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Battle Manager
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I created the ability to save and queue actions and resolve them at the end of the round, when a key is pressed.
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This manager also handles asking the unit AI for actions, during the resolve stage.
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Combat calculations between units that are fighting.
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Unit AI
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I created the calculations that determine what action a computer controller unit should take and which unit they should target.
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This includes attack actions and movement, so the AI will move closer to its target if it is out of range.
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The AIs will fight the weakest enemy unit they can currently attack, so they will team-up on one unit until it dies.
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Win Condition
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I programmed the win condition to be checked at the end of every round.
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If all of the players die, the player loses.
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I also added two objectives, which are set before the game begins:
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Kill every enemy.
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Kill a target.
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If the target is killed, the remaining enemy units will flee and the game will end.
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Number Rendering
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The core number rendering was already created by another programmer on the team, but I created a Number class that takes in a new number string and allows an existing number GUI icon to be updated.
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Additionally, as part of the previous semester's PlayStation 5 project, I accomplished the following:
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I created a renderer for a custom engine in C++.
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This renderer is capable of taking in a 3D model in OBJ format and rendering it on screen, and can apply a texture to the model.
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Level Editor
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I created a level editor for PlayStation 5 that allows you to create new objects in a world, transform them, and change both the model and texture at runtime, entirely useable with a PlayStation 5 controller.
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Skills I Gained:
An understanding of the rendering process, thanks to being able to create my own renderer.
Memory management skills, as I had to create the allocate and free memory functions and manage when these are called to ensure I'm properly allocating and freeing memory.
