The Ant Game

Our group has almost completed work on our six man project to build a game in just a few months using a game engine for our Game Design and Development course at the University of Abertay Dundee.

This was of course just one module. The others included a module on DirectX and a module on PS2 (see previous post).

This game was built using the NXOgre game engine (Ogre3D for graphics, Aegia PhysX for physics, and OpenAL for audio). My primary responsibility in the group was movement and AI, as you can see in this early development video (from less than two months ago).

All in all, I’m relatively happy with the effort. We had our fair share of bumps as we had to agree on an idea, learn a game engine, and make a game. Turns out, agreeing on an idea took 50% of our time… but then again, it’s often been said that planning is the most crucial phase of any project … and that it where you should put all of your effort.

We have a presentation this Thursday, and a report due on Friday.

Other news (for those paying attention) … my other group (our Dare To Be Digital team) submitted our application today. We are application number 275 … and that will be my next post. So stay tuned!