All about the custom Engine!

The process of rolling my own engine, alongside my co-programmer Hayden has been a long, exhausting but incredibly fun process. First inspired by a prior AIE project that was made sans-engine, I immediately became interested in graphics programming. This evolved into a general love and drive for developing my own solutions to problems, and researching different avenues of tackling problems. And because of that, we have been able to develop:

For the short generic infodump, the features I ended up contributing to the engine were:
 - The rendering stack (Deferred Rendering, Post Processing, Immediate/Forward Rendered UI, SSAO, Frustum Culling, Decals)
 - The collision system (2D with Circles and Polygons, implementing SAT, detailed more in my physics article!)
 - The Navigation System (A*)
 - The general scene hierarchy (Object/Component system)

Below, there are a few short devlogs about various different challenges, and fun adventures in development I came across while developing "Mall or Nothing," and the engine it was built on. As Mall or Nothing is still in development at the moment, some of these are not indicitive of the visual style of the final product!