Category Archives: Programming

Rusher 2.1 – Getting Started

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Allen Chou

Go to Rusher 2 project homepage Rusher 2 tutorial list Rusher is a component-based game engine, which means everything is treated equally as an entity (a.k.a game object) that owns components making up the overall behavior of the entity. Systems … Continue reading →

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Rusher 2.1 – Introduction & Migrating from 2.0

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Allen Chou

Go to Rusher 2 project homepage Rusher 2 tutorial list By merging into Rusher what I’ve learned at DigiPen, mostly from Game Engine Architecture Club lectures, I’ve secretly marked it version 2.1 a while ago. For convenience, here’s a quick … Continue reading →

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Cooncoaster – My Second DigiJam Game

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Allen Chou

More Cooncoaster information Play Cooncoaster online (requires Flash Player browser plugin) Instruction: Press space to jump. Collect food and avoid spikes. Cooncoaster is a game I made with my classmates during a 48-hour game jam session held by DigiPen students. … Continue reading →

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Reflector – My First DigiJam Game

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Allen Chou

Play Reflector View Reflector source Rusher Game Engine v2.1 Controls: Move – Arrow Keys Shield – Z Key Gameplay: Use the shield to capture enemy bullets. Turn off the shield to return enemy fire. Basically you’re invincible if you keep … Continue reading →

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My Mutex Implementation

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Allen Chou

There are already lots of well-known and popular libraries out there that provide mutices. But I wanted to try implementing it myself for the sake of just making it. Hey, it’s summer session at DigiPen and I don’t have to … Continue reading →

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Signal System using Delegates

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Allen Chou

I introduced how to build your own C++ delegates in the previous post. Now I’m going to show you the first practical (and probably the most common) usage of delegates: signal/event systems. To clarify the terminology, the mapping between the … Continue reading →

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Easy C++ Delegates

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Allen Chou

As I mentioned in my previous post, I was working on delegates for C++. The first article I read was recommended by one of my programming TAs. The author’s main concern was portability and performance, so he special-cased extensively throughout … Continue reading →

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Function Pointers vs Member Function Pointers

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Allen Chou

My second semester at DigiPen has almost come to an end. For the project of this semester, we are required to write our code in strict C, no fancy C++ stuff like generics and polymorphism. In order to get around … Continue reading →

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Object-Oriented Programming Synonyms

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Allen Chou

This post is written for my classmates at DigiPen. Most of the class have started learning object-oriented programming really for only two weeks, and the professor uses quite a few synonyms that sound really different but are actually the same … Continue reading →

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Object-Oriented Structures in C

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Allen Chou

This is my second semester at DigiPen. We’re not allowed to build our game in C++ for this semester; instead, we can only use C. That means no function overloading, no polymorphism, no generics, and no operator overloading. However, this … Continue reading →

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