Joust (Clone)

Starting with a thin OpenGL wrapper in C, I created a clone of the classic arcade game Joust. Using your skill as an ostrich rider, battle against endless waves of enemies mounted on buzzards.

Below are some of the aspects I built for this project:

• Collision System
Created a system for which all entities can collide and respond appropriately with one another. 
This includes players and enemies killing each other when necessary, bouncing off of platforms, and enemies bouncing off each other.

• Enemy AI
There are 3 enemies with varying AI for each. Each enemy type has a different speed and sight radius. All enemies will wandering the battlefield choosing random intervals to turn around and flap/fly until seeing the player. Once they see a player they will attempt to Joust with them.

• Gameplay
Players have the ability to fly by flapping their wings to gain height, scoring when colliding with enemies while above them, death when colliding with enemies while below them, gaining lives every 20,000 points, as well as the loss condition (losing all your lives).

• Animations
Animations for the player and all enemies include flying, flapping their wings, running, and slowing down. While running, their animation speed is directly correlated with their speed.

• UI
  
Wave number and flavor text, score and lives display, and final score display.

• Miscellaneous
Screen wrapping when entities go off screen, and enemy wave system. 
All waves are as accurate to the original as possible. The only difference being replacing certain waves (Egg waves + dactyl enemy waves) as those mechanics were not implemented.

Note: All sprites were gathered from https://www.spriters-resource.com/.