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October 2006 - April 2007

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• Boy Racer was my final year project at University

• It was developed by a group of 4 people

• I was the only programmer on the project. The others worked on the art and sound

• Our aim was to make a 3D street racing game, set in a much more down to earth setting than most 3D racing games. No Ferraris here, just a bunch of beat-up old cars

• The game was powered by my own 3D game engine (Project Realism Engine)

• Every car was fully moddable, with some rather wild and (to be honest) tasteless mods

• The car modding system was a data driven pipeline, with each car mod being loaded into the car modding garage with a single line of XML. This allowed all the non-programmers on the team to get the cars into the game without asking me to add them

• Because the deadline was so tight (6 months) I also did some of the 3D car and track modelling

• I designed and programmed the frontend for the game

• The game was programmed in C++, and the game engine uses Directx 9 to draw the graphics

• The software I used was:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005 for the c++ programming and debugging

  • Newton Game Dynamics for the physics

  • Maya for the 3D modelling of cars and tracks

  • Photoshop for all the textures and user interface (UI) elements in the game

  • After Effects for all video cut-scenes

  • Flash for mocking up the frontend flow and user interface screens

• Make sure the latest version of Directx, the Xvid codec, and the .NET framework2.0 are installed before running the demo of this game

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