Regional 2024 – Elemental Island

Regional 2024 – Elemental Island

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Made by Chris from Richmond BC.

How to Play: 
DSAW to move
Space to jump
Move the mouse to look around
Explore the island!

Theme:
Exlore the ancient island!
Collect all four elemental crystals.
The crystals are spread across four different stages.
Each stage has an elemental theme, with fitting obstacles.

That was the plan...
EXCEPT I DIDNT FINISH ANY OF THAT BECAUSE OF IB FINAL EXAMS!

Currently the game stands as a tech demo for my 3d polygon rendering engine.
Features:
.obj file reader, 3d camera projection, z-sorted painter's algorithm
sutherland-hodgeman polygon clipping, per-axis 3d collision detection

Challenges:
The biggest challenge for me was learning 3d modelling using Blender.
Using online tutorials, I taught myself modelling, texture baking, and uv mapping.
The hardest part was using the Blender python api to make a custom exporter for my object format.

Highlights:
The best part was successfully rendering a 3d model for the first time.
After countless hours of debugging the polygon clipping algorithm,
I pasted in the data for a low poly tree that I modelled.
The tree was blockier than N64 graphics, and was full of artifacts, but it was very beautiful to me.