Projects/Power-Golf-Arena
Projects/Power-Golf-Arena
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Power Golf Arena
Power Golf Arena
Power Golf Arena is a futuristic extreme sports golf game where your goal is to hit your opponents with golf balls to score points. The crazier the shot the more points you earn.
Power Golf Arena is a futuristic extreme sports golf game where your goal is to hit your opponents with golf balls to score points. The crazier the shot the more points you earn.
Above you can see screenshots of the arena where you battle with each other. There are four spawn points around the map where players can spawn. Pickups spawn inside little shield bubbles that give you special powers if you use them.
Above you can see screenshots of the arena where you battle with each other. There are four spawn points around the map where players can spawn. Pickups spawn inside little shield bubbles that give you special powers if you use them.
My team
My team
The process
The process
I was the lead programmer so I organized most of how the code was going to be structured. I had two colleagues working with me and we had meetings every morning where we discussed what we were going to do that day, and what progress we had made the previous day. We had 6 weeks to finish the game and the end result turned out to be quite satisfactory! We even submitted to the Swedish Game Awards, but unfortunately didn't get to the finals.
Code snippets
Code snippets
Whenever you are about to shoot your golf ball a trajectory appears which closely estimates the path your golfball is going to take once you hit it. Originally, the physics were simulated once every frame, which accounted for about 2 ms of frame time. I was later tasked with optimizing it, and this is the solution I came up with.
Whenever you are about to shoot your golf ball a trajectory appears which closely estimates the path your golfball is going to take once you hit it. Originally, the physics were simulated once every frame, which accounted for about 2 ms of frame time. I was later tasked with optimizing it, and this is the solution I came up with.
The snippet above is responsible for calculating and baking all possible trajectory paths, then later saving the baked result into an asset which is bundled with the built executable.
The snippet above is responsible for calculating and baking all possible trajectory paths, then later saving the baked result into an asset which is bundled with the built executable.
The snippet above is responsible for then interpolating between neighboring baked trajectory paths depending on current aiming parameters. The end result is visually very close to just simulating in real-time. Using this technique the total frame time was reduced from 2 ms to just 0.02 ms + marginally larger executable size (~4 MB).
The snippet above is responsible for then interpolating between neighboring baked trajectory paths depending on current aiming parameters. The end result is visually very close to just simulating in real-time. Using this technique the total frame time was reduced from 2 ms to just 0.02 ms + marginally larger executable size (~4 MB).
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