​For the first project in the Advanced Technologies module, we were given a selection of three possible topics: a tower defence game, a Wolfenstein-style first-person shooter and a skiing game. I decided to go down the route of the FPS game as it seemed the most interesting to me.

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This project was my first introduction to DirectX 11. So, to advance the project I followed various tutorials in order to build up a basic renderer that allowed for both 2D images and 3D models. Moving on from this, I then managed to implement textures to the cubes in the game in the form of cube maps. 

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After I completed the task of getting objects rendering to screen and moving around, I created a first person controller that used the same controls as the original Wolfenstein game and featured the same mechanics such as a fast-turn.

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Before the end of the year I aim to add in enemies in the form of billboards and a finished game loop.

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As I had never used DirectX 11 before, I found this project extremely tough. Yet I was still quite proud with what I managed to achieve in the initial six-week period. 

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Tools used: C++, DirectX 11, Visual Studio.