Particle Island (proof of concept)

Particle Island is a tech demo / proof of concept for a potential sandbox game that uses distance fields rather than traditional voxels and is rendered entirely using billboarded sprites. This demo is basically a goodie bag of game mechanics without much "game" to support them, but it was all made with no engine and within the span of 2 weeks.

Controls and such are listed in the in-game journal, which can be opened with T. Basic first-person controls apply, with WASD and the mouse being used to move around.

Particle Island was made from scratch using C++ and OpenGL, compiled with GCC and MinGW64. It uses the following libraries: GLEW (modern OpenGL extensions binding for C/++ developers), GLFW (window and input handling), Freetype (unused but it's a dependency for a separate library), Crest (audio loading and playback), and an in-house OpenGL and math utilities library.