Table of Contents (Click the title to go to section)
Core Game Loop
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CONTROL the player
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USE the flashlight to damage enemy shield
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USE shrines to RECHARGE/CHANGE flashlight color
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MATCH correct light color to enemy to damage their shield
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SHOOT gun after the enemy shield is down
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AVOID enemy attacks
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KILL all the entities and advance to next wave.
Game Entities/Mechanics
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Player Character/Player flashlight
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Use WASD to move and SPACEBAR to shoot​/ use flashlight
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Flashlight and its Battery life
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Shrines
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4 Shrines in total: WHITE, RED, BLUE, GREEN
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WHITE shrine regenerates battery life
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RED, BLUE and GREEN shrine lets you change the the flashlight color
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Enemies cant attack you inside the shrines
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WHITE Shrine
GREEN Shrine
RED Shrine
BLUE Shrine
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Enemies
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There are 3 types: RED, GREEN and BLUE
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They have a shield that makes it harder to kill them.
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The player uses the flashlight to weaken the enemy and destroy its shield.
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Use correct flashlight to the correct enemy
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RED enemy
GREEN enemy
BLUE enemy
Game/Graphics systems/concepts learned
Vertex and Pixel Shaders
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A vertex shader is a graphics processing function used to add special effects to objects in a 3D environment by performing mathematical operations on the objects' vertex data.
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A Pixel Shader is a graphics function that calculates effects on a per-pixel basis.
Shader structs and utilities
Vertex and Pixel Shader sample
Dev Console
A working dev console that accepts input, has a blinking insertion point, and allows executed commands from a history of previous commands.
Dev Console in my engine
Perspective Projection
Perspective Matrix
Implementation
Point Lights
Concept
Pixel shader code
Spot Light
Concept
Pixel shader code