Garrett Muldowney e-Portfolio
4th Year Projects:
Hammer Islands:
Currently in development is a game entry for the imagine cup that has the temporary title “Hammer Islands”. The game will be an RTS style game and i am developing it with 3 other students from the course. The aim of the game will be to control an island and develop relationships with neighboring islands through peaceful methods such as trade or by other methods like attacking the island. The players will have to manage resources they receive from their island and their allies and try to gain all the islands on the map for their side.The game will be two player and if possible connectible across games for windows live.
Here is a small demonstration of the windows live features and what the game world will look like:
Games Middleware Project / Physics engine
During the games middleware module of my course we were required to use the ODE engine to create a physics simulation that would implement rigid bodies, Joints, forces and an explosion. For my submission i made a robot and blew it up. here is a small video of the final project.
3rd Year Projects
XNA team game
in my third year of college i did at lot of work with XNA. i worked with a team on a game called “Zombie Ninja Pandas”, which was essentially what it said on the tin. It was a side-scrolling shooter game where the player would be put into a room and be attacked by waves of zombie ninja pandas and only progress when he defeated them by shooting them. like a cross between smash tv and metal slug.
A basic screen from the game
XNA Pac-man
The first thing that i had to build in XNA was a rendition of pac-man because of pac-man’s 20th annaversary. The game was the same as the original with a maze to navigate, ghosts to avoid and dots to collect. i used pac-man sprite sheets found on the web to create all the necessary images for the ghosts and maze as well as the dots and pac-man himself and implemented game start, in game and game won and loss states in the game for when the dots were all collected or pac-man lost all his lives because of encounters with ghosts.
