This is my submission for Ubisoft's NEXT 2024-2025 challenge this year! I began working on the engine on December 14th, 2024, and completed the game submission on January 20th :)

The theme was MINIGOLF, so I was inspired by Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom to play a 3D platformer level where you launch yourself around like a golf ball to collect objectives and free trapped "fish" (the boids!)

Video demo: https://youtu.be/JIPNhrzT12A?si=B-tTXGQSRBKkDaIk

Completed features:

• Flocking with boids :D
• Grid-based level generation
• Music and sound effects self-made on Beepbox!
• 3D renderer (projection, triangles, rasterizer, lighting, backface culling, transformations, triangle clipping)
• .obj file loading
• Free camera, fixed target camera, "parallax-clamp" camera
• Scene management for levels
• Tiny Vector3 and Matrix4x4 math library
• Core game loop
• Entity manager (game object creation), entity memory pool, custom entity iterator
• Components, component memory pools
• UI system
• Basic physics (mostly sphere and AABB collision w/ impulse, rigidbodies, basic dynamics, drag)

Features that I planned but shelved:

• Octree spatial partitioning to improve z-depth rendering, and also optimize collision detection - decided to prioritize other things
• Obstacle avoidance for the boids - required the above to be feasible performance-wise
• More audio features, like spatial panning and effects - the given SimpleSound interface we were allowed to use was sadly only limited to starting, looping, and stopping sounds