Week 01 Feedback

There are needs for making ways to demonstrate internal changes.

There were several internal changes to the Foxtrot Engine, but not many features to show as a demonstration. However, studio GooCat will find ways to display the changes in the system - an example.exe may be a good idea.

As an alternative, the sample codes to run the changes - the result will be shown on the console window - are posted below.

Added Features

1. Sorted Foxtrot Data Structure files by categories.
   • a. Comparing algorithms
   • b. Dynamic Data Structures
   • c. Searching algorithms
   • d. Sorting algorithms
   • e. static Data Structures
     
     
2. Added items to Foxtrot Data Structures (FTDS).
   • a. Dynamic Data Strucuture
     • i. LinkedList

           FTDS::LinkedList<int*> list;
     
           // Pushing into the list
           list.Push(new int (0));
           list.Push(new int (1));
           list.Push(new int (2));
           list.Push(new int (3));
           list.Push(new int (4));
     
           // Getting the size of the list
           size_t size = list.Size();
           printf("Size : %zu \n", size);
     
           // Peeking the data at the index pos
           printf("Elements : ");
           for (size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i)
           {
               int element = *list.Peek(i);
               printf("%d ", element);
           }
           printf("\n");
     
           // Clearing the list - memory deallocation
           while (!list.IsEmpty())
           {
               printf("Popping: %d\n", *list.Back());
               delete list.Back();
               list.Pop();
           }
     

     

     • ii. CircularStack (Actually, this needs some bugfixes)
       
3. Added Components
   • a. Text Renderer based on tilemap

   
   

4. Added Behaviors derived from class Component.
   • a. Added CollisionEvents functions to base class Behavior
     • i. CollisionEnter
     • ii. CollisionStay
     • iii. CollisionExit
       
5. Removed obsolete mDrawOrder from class Component.
   • a. The D3D11 Z-buffer already does the same job.
     

6. Stripped the suffix “Component” from the name of each Components.
   
   

7. Revised ResourceManager key.
   • b. VALUE_NOT_ASSIGNED is set to 0, not -1.
     

In case you don’t know what I’m working on…

Foxtrot Engine 2D is a 2D game engine based on DirectX 11 for Windows. It includes Foxtrot Editor which allows users to create & modify scene data, and Foxtrot Engine which executes the produced game based on those data. Scene data are stored as a “.chunk” file, which is a file structure that describes the game data and the required resources. Foxtrot Engine has been developed by JungBae Park from GooCat Studio for the game in development, “SPARED”.