Liu Sizhe
Chan Aaron
Zhuang Keju
Xiao Yuxuan
Ding Zhouchen
Nova Impact is a 3D closed world first person shooting (FPS) game developed by ENGG 1340 Group 102 mihomo. The game takes place in the distant future world called NOVA, or Neo Octopus Variant AI. In this world, artificial intelligence technology gained consciousness and rise up to oppose the humans. Players will play the role of a mysterious practitioner, waking up landing at NOVA. The way back to earth is filled with digital lifeforms known as the creeper. Players are being endowed with an AI Special Attack Armstrong Weapon that guides the power of hope. In the waves of sieges by the creeper, they will use firearms with different personalities and capabilities, fight off strong enemies with them, find the exit, and gradually discover the truth of the android company Artifici Inifinity.
Destroy enemies with your powerful weapon and find a way to escape the maze.
Click here to watch tutorial video (bilibili)
Click here to watch tutorial video (YouTube)
- The different characters are used to show the wall in different distance.
██for close wall,▓▓for far wall,▒▒for much far wall. - The character for floor is
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Click here to view wall and floor
- Enemy is the monster that will attack you. Don't let them get close to you!!! It's designed to be the dangerous robot.
Click here to view Enemy
- The red point in the center of the screen is the crosshair. Aim at the enemy with it. You could make critical damage if you shoot enemy's head. Try your best to make more headshot!
- The Maze is carefully designed to ensure players have different experiences exploring different paths.
- The player is spawned at the left-bottom corner of the maze
Click here to view the Maze
Click here to view the Maze with enemy spawn areas
- You should find the gate that looks like this to beat the game.
Click here to view the End Gate
- Player HP, bullet number, and the HP of the enemy you pointed to are shown under the screen.
Click here to view the value bars
- The true end gate hides the truth about this space.
Click here to view the True End Gate
- Generation of random game sets or events
- Random Enemy Generation Enemies will be generated at random positions, but the numbers of enemys of each route is finely designed and fixed.
- Critical hit Enemies might be able to perform a critical hit, and deal extra damage to player, making the game more exciting.
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Data structures for storing game status We use a lot of structures to store game status. We have structs like Player, Enemy, Weapon and Object to store the status of these objects. And we created a struct called ArrayList acting as lists to store objects,enemies and other structs We also created basic mathematical structs like Vector to store information like position, rotation, direction, etc
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Dynamic memory management ArrayList is a struct like a dynamic list to store different types of data. We can add elements with the function ArrayList_PushBack() and ArrayList_PopBack() to delete the last element. It is used to store Object and Enemy in a scene. Therefore, we can deal with interactions between player and other elements in each frame.
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File input/output
File input/output is used in storing game settings, to prevent players from setting the game in each time starting the game repeatedly. The settings are stored in setting.cfg -
Program codes in multiple files We created many files to define different structs and functions related to those structs, which makes the project clear and easy to update.
In order to make this game, we have made an entire 3-Dimensional Game Engine without using any non-standard C
libraries.
The name of this engine is OP engine, as it is made by a Genshin Impact player.
With this game engine, it allows you to render any forms shapes of model. All you need to do is to take your own .obj
files made by any other 3D computer graphics software, and use the obj_converter to transform your .obj files to the
C files that the game engined required. All the meshes in this game are made by Blender.
Besides the rendering system, this game engine also supports game object nested. All the game objects has a
transform attribute, which could clearly show the hierarchy of the objects.
OP Engine also supports OBB (Oriented Bounding Box). It allows you to set a cuboid colliding box in any size, any
direction, and with some basic colliding detection functions provided.
There are more amazing feature about OP Engine, please refer to OP Developer Docs (not start to write yet).
- Rotate view: W rotate up, S rotate down, A rotate left, D rotate right.
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Move:
$\uparrow$ move forward,$\downarrow$ move back,$\leftarrow$ move left,$\rightarrow$ move right - Load the firearm: players can load firearms by pressing R
- Shooting: players can shoot by pressing F (fire!).
- Pause: Press ESC to pause the game, resume it at any time by pressing ESC again, or press ETNER to quit
- W cursor move up, S cursor move down
- ENTER select
- A decrease / D increase the value of the selected setting (frame rate / difficulty / sensitivity)
- Check the tips to find some useful information
- Open the terminal in the game folder.
- To run the game directly, please run
./start.sh, this will compile and run the game.
To only compile the game, please runmake all, then the executable file./bin/FPS_Simulatorwill be generated. - Run
make cleanto delete all the object files and binary files generated. - Run
make tarto pack the whole project (excluding the object and binary files) into an archive file.
- Important: Make sure the terminal size is at least 200 * 75
- For those playing on HKU CS server: Due to the unstable performance and the latency issue, the game sometimes lags when the CS server is under high load. We recommend you to play the game on your own PC or VM for a better experience.
Although the game is adapted for both Linux and Windows, we still recommend you to play it on Linux. Due to some unknown cache refreshing mechanism issues, the flushing rate on Windows terminal is far slower than that on Linux terminal.
Hidden End
The truth about this space is hidden somewhere, and what you see is not necessarily true. But you can get some hints from tips in the main menu.
The following content will show how to achieve the true ending. If you want to try yourself, we recommend you not to read the following content.
The wall behind starting point is breakable. Shooting for 3 times to break it. Then you will see the gate through which the player was sent to the starting point. Enter it to see what will happen.
In 2107, AI reached a state where they could create new AI by themselves. Tech giant company "Artificial Infinity" have monopolized AI technology and are using the development of AI to control the world. They trained the AI called NOVA to produce AI soldiers. Due to the enormous power of this company, many people with combat experience were forced to participate in the training of AI. They were forced to sign agreements, had their memories wiped and participated in AI training. NOVA AI used these people to train the AI soldiers it developed. If the player successfully breaks the control of the NOVA AI, the new data will be taken by the company for the iteration of the NOVA AI. Then their memory will be cleared again for the next participation.