Edgar's Story

Edgar is a squirrel who lives in a galaxy with really small planets. Edgar likes to jump between these planets. There are a bunch of other creatures on these planets who don't take too kindly to Edgar's jumping habits. They would really like him to stop.

There are these flags on a few of the planets. Edgar really likes flags. If Edgar gets hurt on a planet, he runs back to the last flag he was at, because they make him feel safe.

video: https://youtu.be/LJsLKFvbENI In short, Edgar's Story is an epic love story that appeals to the masses. It contains a large number of very convincing explosions, A-list acting talent, and of course, false advertising.

How To Play

Get Edgar to the last planet as fast as you can!

Move: WASD or arrow keys
Jump: Spacebar (press or hold)
Zoe Mode: Z (toggle)

There are checkpoints! Yay!
There are enemies! Look out!
Running into an enemy sends you back to your last checkpoint.
Timing your jumps correctly results in higher jumps.

Source Code

mimigo.zip

Required Libraries

• OpenGL
• GLU
• OpenGL
• glm
• Glew
• SDL
• SDL_mixer
• SDL_image

Technology Breakdown

Edgar's story contains a sizable collection of advanced graphics technologies. To list items of interest:

• Animation
  Shak
  The birds are so excited that they are flapping their wings!
• Audio
  Lindahl
  Music and jump sound effect.
• Complex Enviorment
  Taggart, Shak, Villatoro
  Look how awesome our level is!
• Collisions
  Patton
  Spherical and Axis-Aligned bounding regions.
• Engine
  Hebert
  Notice our ridiculous number of source files.
• Gameplay Logic
  Hebert, Villatoro
  Game state and checkpoints.
• HUD
  Lindahl
  Motivational message and statistics on-screen.
• Particle System
  Taggart, Shak
  Pretty stars and bumblebees!
• Shader
  Hebert, Lindahl, Patton
  Cel and toon shading.
• Skybox
  Taggart
  Look at the pretty clouds!
• Spatial Data Structure
  Patton
  The octree from hell.
• View Frustum Culling
  Villatoro
  Can you see anything off-screen? No? Then it must be working!

References

• HUD design: http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/intermediate-tutorials/tutorial-11-2d-text/
• Particle System: http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorial/particle_engine_using_triangle_strips/21001/
• View Frustum Culling: Instruction provided by Zoe Wood.

Credits

• Christopher Hebert: Chief Chebert; First Team Manager.
• Erik Lindahl: Audio Amplifier; Second Team Manager.
• Christopher Patton: Demolitions Expert; Resident Git Guru.
• Christina Taggart: Visual Viking; Co-Particle Princess.
• Melina Shak: Movement Master; Co-Particle Princess.
• Saul Villatoro: Fixit Felix; Culling Champion; The Batman.