My Projects

This is a project which I am currently working on. It is being written using the C++ programming language using SDL for windowing and mouse and keyboard events.

Building on the concept of my Particle Engine, this game will contain many new features and capabilities:

• Physics: The game will make use of real physics equations to calculate particle speed and direction.
• Gravitational Bodies: You will be able to place gravitational bodies anywhere you like. These will affect the movement of the particles depending on their masses allowing you to create many interesting effects, such as spiral galaxies.
• Charged Bodies: Similar to gravitational bodies, these will affect particle movement depending on their electrical charge.
• Particle Emitters: You will be able to place a potentially infinite number of these anywhere. These are what you use to create particles.

The game will be focused on customisability and simplicity. Almost everything about the particles will be customisable. All you will have to do is change the setting of the emitter. Likewise, the gravitational and charged bodies will also be almost completely customisable, allowing you to change their size, mass, charge, etc.

I am hoping to keep it as simple and user friendly as possible, minimising the amount of time required to get the desired effect. For example, I hope to be able to use the mouse scroll wheel for changing certain settings of various entities, such as the mass of a gravitational body, or the charge of a charged body when you hover over one.

This has been written in the C++ programming language and uses OpenGL to handle the graphics. SDL is used to handle the windowing and keyboard events. This program simply demonstrates some of the capabilities of the engine. The program also makes use of the LoadTGA() function from the NeHe tutorials* for loading the particle texture.

• Press the 'g' key to delete or re-initialise the green particles.
• Press 'Esc' to quit.

No known bugs.

• Windows XP/Vista/7/8 RP
• Linux (compiled and tested in Ubuntu 11.04)

The Linux build of the program requires that you have SDL and OpenGL installed.

• 9 June 2012: Changed how particles are rendered. Removed OpenGL DLLs from installer. (Windows only).
• 13 April 2012: Fixed green particles not re-initialising when pressing the 'g' key after they have been deleted.
• 12 April 2012: Fixed program crashing when pressing the 'g' key in Linux. Fixed a memory leak.
• 10 April 2012: Got icon to display on main executable. Changed program information to show program description, version number, etc. (Windows only).
• 9 April 2012: Fixed particles not coming out in a continuous stream.
• 12 November 2011: Changed program icons.
• 11 November 2011: Added a frame rate limiter. The Windows version now has an installer.
• 9 November 2011: Fixed 'Entry Point Not Found Error' in XP.
• 25 September 2011: Added msvcr71.dll to the Windows package.

*NeHe Lesson 24

This has been written using C++ along with OpenGL for the main graphics and SDL for the windowing and keyboard events. It also makes use of the SDL extension libraries 'SDL_ttf' and 'SDL_image'.

• Press the 'Enter' key to start the game or reset the game if the ball has left the game window.
• Use the 'w' and 's' keys to move the left paddle up and down.
• Use the up and down arrow keys to move the right paddle up and down.
• The 'Esc' key will quit the game.

• The areas where there should be text may appear as white blocks. Possibly a driver issue.
• The Linux version may freeze when trying to quit the game.

• Windows XP/Vista/7
• Linux (compiled and tested in Ubuntu 11.04)

The Linux build of Pong requires you to have SDL and OpenGL installed. It also requires the SDL extension libraries 'SDL_ttf' and 'SDL_image'.

• 13 November 2011: Fixed an issue where the speed of the ball on the X axis would gradually decrease, eventually leading to the ball just bouncing up and down.
• 12 November 2011: Removed the in-game menu. Added a framerate limiter. Added program icons. Reduced the maximum start speed of the ball. Pressing 'Enter' after the ball has left the game window will reset the game. The ball should no longer fly out of the game window if hit with the top or bottom of a paddle.
• 10 November 2011: Fixed a problem where the amount of memory usage would gradually increase. Created a Windows installer for the program.
• 30 September 2011: Added msvcr71.dll to the Windows package.

This has been written in the C programming language and allows the user to create a random password of either numbers, letters (lowercase or mixed case) or both of virtually any length. The created password will be saved into a *.txt file in the same folder as the program.

1. Enter a number for how many characters long you want the password to be.
2. Enter either 1, 2 or 3 to choose what type of password you would like.
3. Enter either 'y' or 'n' (without the quotes) to make the password mixed case or not. (This is only required if you chose to have the password contain letters)

• Windows (should work in XP/Vista/7)
• Linux (compiled and tested in Ubuntu 11.04 - must be launched from the Terminal)

This has been written in C. It is an unfinished Text Based Adventure Game in which the player starts out in a jail cell and must escape. You can pick up and use items in order to unlock doors, light darkened rooms, etc.

The first bit of the game is fairly self explanatory in what you have to do. When you start the main game there are a number of different commands:

• Type 'north', 'south', 'east' or 'west' to go in their respective directions, or if you prefer, 'n', 's', 'e' or 'w'.
• Type 'take' followed by the name of an object that you can see in order to pick it up (if you can).
• Type 'drop' followed by the name of an object in your inventory in order to drop it into the room you are in.
• Type 'unlock' followed by the name of a locked object, such as a door, followed by 'with' and then the name of an item in your inventory to unlock that object (if you can).
• Type 'open' followed by the name of a closed object, such as a door, to open that object.
• You can also 'use' objects in your inventory.
• Type 'inventory' or 'i' to view your inventory.
• Type 'look' or 'l' to look at the room you are in.
• Type 'save' to save your progress.
• Type 'quit' or 'q' to quit. You will be asked if you wish to save your progress before quitting.

The game has not undergone very much testing, so there are probably bugs everywhere.

• Windows (should work in XP/Vista/7)