The Creation of a Bullet Hell Game Engine

摘要

Bullet hell is a type of shooting game characterized by large quantities of bullets. This presents a computational challenge for developers, who must find a way to process hundreds of bullets in a very short length of time. For my senior research project, I designed and coded a game engine for handling the unique requirements of bullet hell games. I used the RADIS approach to efficiently design the engine. The work-in-progress engine is coded in C, using SDL for graphics and Lua for scripting. Although much remains to be done, many features of the engine can be demonstrated, including its collision detection and rudimentary scripting capabilities.