InfiniGolf - Intake Project

Overview

InfiniGolf was my intake project for the Creative Media and Game Technologies, Programming Track. Based on the theme ‘Bounce’ I created a simple endless golf game in the span of about a week.

What I Learned

Being my intake, this was also my first real C++ project - safe to say, I learned a lot.

• Working with C++ for the first time introduced me to various C++ concepts - classes, structs, various datatypes & the standard library.
• This project used the 3DGEP tutorial template using SDL. I learnt about input events & update loops.
• The infinite terrain introduced me to procedural generation, and how to make it fit within a pattern for gameplay purposes.
• Working with UI taught me about hierarchies, anchoring, dirty flags & UI programming.

Future Improvements

• At the time I optimized my simple terrain drawing approach using lines by baking it to a texture. In hindsight, making the terrain using triangles would have likely been more efficient.