HMIN317 Moteur de jeux - Project Sheet

Base Concepts

My intent with this project is to create a general 3D Game Engine. The main features will be:

The features I will not cover in this project, except if I have extra time (I won't)

Demo Concept & Gameplay

I was really astounded by the new Ratcher & Clank: Rift Apart - Gameplay Demo 🔗

I really like the new Rift Traversal mechanics shown at 2:50 🔗 of the gameplay demo.

My goal would be to reproduce this effect in a little 3D platformer demo scene, and add some mechanics from Ratcher & Clanks that I find interesting to study.

Rift Traversal

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The system is a bit similar to Portal's portals. The difference is that we pull the rendering plan to the player, and perform a smooth teleportation to te target location.

I will make a technical breakdown for this effect.

Rails

Rails are quite common, they use a spline to move the character along them. The results are smooth and very pleasant.

I already made a rail-shooter prototype 🔗.

Gravity Boots

Gravity boots are another cool mechanics that plays with the gravity to make ratchet able to move on surfaces with a different local frame.

Rendering

For the rendering tech, I choose to use Vulkan as I already master OpenGL. If the task is too heavy, I'll switch back to OpenGL.

Rendering features I plan to implement:

And If I have time to add more:

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