Introduction

This was a team project for Prof. Bing-Yu Chen’s course Game Programming Fall 2015. I was the programmer of the game, not the author of the artistic materials.

Dungeon: Lost Cognition is a simple 3D game written in C++. It resembles the style of Doom & Quake in the 1990s. Its implementation features a simple ECS (Entity-Component System), where all in-game potions as well as characters/enemies are instances of entities. To avoid building a level editor by ourselves, we use .bmp images to store level data:

Different color represents different objects in the level. A playable world can be generated by the game program reading the image.

Such design makes it really easy to edit and modify the map without recompiling the program over and over. The modular nature of the core architecture also makes it straightforward to add/remove features of in-game items.

Screenshots

Our main character facing multiple enemies. Floating objects are enhancement potions.

It is hopeless to 1 v.s. 10. The glowing floor is lava.