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Sector's Edge Game Engine

During the past year I've made exciting advancements with raytraced audio, rendering systems, unsynchronised multithreading and much more.

Sector's Edge - Allegiance + UX

Sector's Edge - Allegiance + UX

Rocket and I have spent the past month improving the tedious, unintuitive parts of the Sector's Edge UI and exploring a new compelling, rewarding and unique progression system.

Battlefield 2042 Portal - Creating a Zombies Game Mode

Battlefield 2042 Portal - Creating a Zombies Game Mode

This guide explains how to create a Zombies game mode using the Battlefield 2042 Portal Rules Editor.

Battlefield 2042 Portal - Rules Editor Guide

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Battlefield 2042 Portal - Rules Editor Guide

This guide explains how to use the Battlefield 2042 Portal Rule Editor to create new gamemodes and fun gimmicks.

OpenGL Particle Systems

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OpenGL Particle Systems

This article details the changes in memory structure, algorithms and shaders that contributed to a performance increase in the Sector's Edge particle system.

Particle Optimisations

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Particle Optimisations

This article explains the optimisations made to the particle system in Sector's Edge that allow tens of thousands of particles to be ray-marched, buffered and rendered each frame.

Optimised CPU Ray Marching in a Voxel World

Optimised CPU Ray Marching in a Voxel World

This article explains how we optimised our ray marching algorithm that handles collision detection for tens of thousands of particles.

Lag Compensation - Fair Play for all Pings

Lag Compensation - Fair Play for all Pings

This article explains the lag compensation system used in Sector's Edge that improves hit-detection accuracy for players with high ping time.

Further Voxel World Optimisations

Further Voxel World Optimisations

This article explains how we optimised chunk mesh generation down to 0.48ms per chunk.

Voxel World Optimisations

Voxel World Optimisations

This article details the voxel mesh generation technique used in our game Sector's Edge.

3D Game Rendering - Behind the Scenes

3D Game Rendering - Behind the Scenes

Each frame seen in a modern game is the combination of many different layers and effects. This article explains each stage of the rendering process in our first person shooter Sector's Edge [https://sectorsedge.com]. There are a few terms used in this article: * Buffer - a 2D image that

Random Galaxy Generation with C# and OpenGL

Random Galaxy Generation with C# and OpenGL

This article explains the galaxy generation algorithm showcased in the video below. It is written in C#, rendered with OpenGL and the source code is available here [https://www.dropbox.com/s/sxhgc6dlff1ej1g/galaxyGeneration.cs?dl=0]. At the end of the article you can see how the galaxy is