JORDI BACH - PROGRAMMER
Good day, I am Jordi Bach. I have been a programmer for the Mandalorian game and our custom game engine. During this project I enjoyed participating in many diferent areas of game and engine programming and learned a lot from it. I had the opportunity to work with engine and library building, engine programming and gameplay development. Another reward I got from this project alongside the technical knowldge is the experience of working in a big team. Looking back, it seemed problematic developing with a big team however, the team was great and overall had a great communication.
PROJECT CONTRIBUTION
Engine Build Structure
I was in charge of implementing the base engine design we had in mind detailed under the engine tab. Shortly, creating 4 visual studio projects that build the game and engine executables, a scripting dynamic library linked at runtime and the core dynamic library with the shered code between all the preavious projects. I also specifyed the diferent project build configurations.
Library Building
I used cmake to build some x86 open source third party library required for our project or to replace some versions we already had that had problems. Some examples are assimp, optick, physX etc.
Scripting System
I developed a C/C++ scripting system supporting hot reloading and inspector variables for our custom engine.
Ui System
I developed the engine 2D ui system. I also worked with Santiago on the 2Danimator component and the support for texture coordinates used on the spritesheets and the ui atlas.
Game Ui Implementation
I implemented most of the game ui and some ui 2D animations through the scripting system. This includes in game menus, player hud, weapon info and menu scenes ui. I also worked positioning some ui elements on its place.
Game Loop implementation
I worked with the game loop logic conecting it with the menus and randomizing the different rooms order.
Pathfinding integration
I supported the pathfinding integration working on inputing correcly the geometry to the recast library, rendering the output mesh and saving this mesh.
Game Repository Mainteinance
I was in charge to keep up to date the github game repository that contained the game and engine on executable mode.
