My Third-Year Project

Welcome to my third-year project blog, which I'll be updating regularly to document my progress as I develop my video game project in my final year as a University of Manchester Computer Science student.

Extended Functionality

The MVP has been completed for my project, and have set up some example scenarios to make demonstrating this easier. There remain some...

Working State

The game is finally in a working state, complete with a full user interface, and the logic for one example game (Pool) which is...

Pool Rules

I have neglected this blog for a short time after I fell ill, but have still been working on the project, and have the following update!...

User Input

A game isn't much use without user input; so I've implemented a first version of the control scheme, which includes a cue ball and cue...

Collision Sandbox Complete

I have been able to complete the collision sandbox feature of my project which demonstrates the mechanics of random objects colliding in...

Collision – Continued...

I have had some difficulty completing the collision model on time due to my unfamiliarality with the tools I am using, but this is a...

Collision Detection

These past two weeks I have simplified the hierarchy of classes present at this stage, which will make development easier going forward....

Getting Started

A week on I have settled on a few decisions and set up an environment to cater to them. I have set up a free educational Github account...

Feasibility and Filtering Ideas

Since being accepted for the video game development project over summer I have had a few ideas that I've considered – including a simple...