Programming Language: C
Code Repository: https://github.com/TiagoJoseMagalhaes/lcom
Developed as a course assignment, this work created a 2D game for the Minix3 operating system’s graphical mode. This game was a top-down target shooter.
This application ran in kernel mode in order to have access to all devices via system interrupts. This application made use of the mouse, keyboard, and timer, as well as having to write straight into video memory for the graphical mode. The mouse was used to control the player’s aim, the keyboard controlled the player’s movement and the timer controls the movement of projectiles. Additionally, the timer controls copies from the backbuffer to the display buffer, so it controls the swapchain.
This game makes use of randomly placed walls and enemies and the player’s objective is to hit all the enemies/targets in the smallest amount of time possible.
This is a fun one to look back at, in a good and a bad way! When I developed this software, I was essentially in my first year of actual software engineering after having transferred over from electrical engineering, I had at most 100 or so hour of experience by that point and it shows. God, when I look at some of this code I just have to ask what kind of acid I was on. But at the same time, it shows that I have learned, after at the time this seemed like perfectly fine code to me. To a degree, I almost want to revisit Minix and have some fun with it. Anyways, all I have to say to anyone looking at this code is to never ever, in your wildest dreams think of using the code here on your own project, its very very very bad code. And as always take this small reflection as half-serious half-satire and in good fun, it is my own code, after all, so I get to make fun of it all I want.