LibCT is the name of the project I made for part one of the Videogame Middleware assignment, the task was to create a middleware that would be useful for games.

So what does LibCT do? Well it aims to solve a common task that faces game makers today, that of creating conversation trees that a player can traverse.

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For our AI Assignments we had to pick a paper describing an AI technique to recreate, this made for a really fun module with everyone doing different things, all of which were cool.

The paper I chose can be found in AI Game Programming Wisdom; Squad Tactics: Team AI and Emergent Behaviours by William van der Sterren.

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This was the third of three mini-projects that comprised the practical part of the Advanced 3D Programming module for the final year, (and purposefully the easiest one of the three, to help spread the load across the year).

It is built upon Frank Lunas DirectX 9 framework. The demo starts by generating a terrain and placing 5000 trees randomly around the scene (Hence the large loading time) it then uses a variety of techniques to attempt to cull the most trees possible, hoping to increase the frame-rate (Not always  successfully).

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This blackjack game, created using XNA was produced for the Network Programming module of the final year. It allows multiple players on the same network (sorry, no Internet play at the moment) to create or connect to a server. Once connected to a server players are able to chat to each other and challenge up to five other players to a game of (simplified) blackjack.

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This software renderer started off as an assignment for uni, but I re-did it from scratch after finishing that year to show off as a portfolio piece (It’s just took a while for me to get around to uploading it to this version of the site). The code is really quite bad by my current standards (amazing the difference and year and a half makes) but it was a brilliant learning experience to be in total control of everything from loading the file to transforming the verts to finally drawing the polygons on the screen.

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