C++

C++ gets a lot of stick, and there’s good reasons for it. But despite its flaws it was popular enough to have decent debugging tools for a lot of its life, making it as useful as it is dangerous.

I got into C++ by writing games for Nikolaus Gebhardt’s Irrlicht Engine, an open source 3D graphics library for the fixed-function pipeline that abstracts the rendering back-end and operating system away, making it perfect for cross platform, device agnostic games programming.

So most of my C++ work is stuff done for Irrlicht, which I was on the dev team for several years - until I gave up on the idea of writing games and moved on to more boring, real things.

Games

Some games, none of any note.

• 👾 irrvaders - A space invaders game with a cylindrical coordinate system.
• 🚀 jetpac - A remake of JetPac.
• 🔥 jump or burn - Ridiculously crap game made for a gaming contest.

• 💥 mines - Minesweeper game.

  Unifinished

• 👽 UFO game - A game that Graeme and I wanted to make, in the style of Star Fox 64.
• ✝ Monotheism - A game I wanted to make, but, got distracted making other things.

Irrlicht Scene Nodes

Things that make your world pretty

• 🧑‍🔧 axial-billboards - Axis aligned billboards, like Mariokart on the SNES.
• 📦 batching-mesh - A mesh that batches its children, so you can use fewer render calls.
• ⚡ beam-scene-node -
• A screen-aligned beam effect. Basically a rod with a billboard on each end.
• ☁️ clouds - Clouds with recursive levels of detail.
• ☘️ grass - A grass patch scene node, used in a few popular games.
• 🕵️ impostors - Distant items become billboards, making enormous scenes possible.
• 🪴 plantlod - A quad tree to render loads of stuff, loaded from disk and culled depending on distance.
• 🌍 spheremap renderer - Render the scene into a spheremap, for use in lighting effects.
• 🖼️ skybox renderer - Render your scene into a sky box. Same as above, but for performance reasons.

Tools

• 👍 3d mesh thumbnailer - A Gnome thumbnailer for 3D mesh file formats.
• 🔡 font generator - The cross platform Irrlicht font generator.
• 🖊️ GUI Editor - The GUI editor for Irrlicht.

Irrlicht Loaders and Internals

• 🔠 figlet driver - Loading figlet fonts on the console device, or wherever.
• 🤖 console device - Created as a null device, became an ASCII device for software drivers
• 🖼️ ico-loader - Load Windows icon and cursor files in your Irrlicht app.
• 📉 loader profiler - Profile the various loaders for the Irrlicht Engine.
• 💾 ply loader - A loader for Stanford Polygon with blistering performance due to ugly hacks.
• 🪟 rsrc-loader - Load resources from Windows DLL and EXE files.