ProcessorPanic

Building the Engine Structure

We built the game with a custom C++ engine using SFML as the base media library. We also added support for Tiled and TGUI, then structured the engine around components so the game could grow beyond the first work week.

The point was not to make a perfect engine, but to understand what usually sits underneath a game engine. We had to handle rendering, input, tilemaps, UI and game state ourselves instead of relying on Unity.

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UI and Game Programming

Our team had three programmers. During the main work week, my focus was the TGUI interface and live UI updates, so the player always saw the correct information for the current game state.

The first UI was made fast and mostly with PNG textures, so it was not very adaptive. Later work focused on replacing parts of it with cleaner color blocks and text areas, fixing rushed systems and making the game loop more engaging.

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Art and Polish on the Side

As the only artist on the team, I also created assets when new features needed them. The trailer and tutorial animation were the most time-intensive parts here, but programming stayed the priority, so the art stayed practical and close to what the current feature needed.