This is a sort-of complete list of things I’d label as projects. The more “notable” things are also on my CV.

Magpie#

Fully-custom 3D Vulkan Renderer with and extensive Vulkan abstraction layer, integrated model loading, a physically based material system, asset management and more.

Leviathan#

A framework for creating 2D games inspired by FNA/MonoGame, written in C++ using the SDL and OpenGL libraries. It features its own custom maths library and container implementations, and handles basic asset loading/unloading, entity management, input and event handling, and rendering.

Path Tracer#

Physically-based path tracer capable of metallic, lambertian and refractive materials.

2D Finite-Element Solver#

Given a set of 2D beams of different materials and shapes inter-connected between each other, a set of input forces and boundary-conditions, it forms a stiffness matrix which it uses to form a linear equation that is then be solved for the deflection of each point.

2D Navier-Stokes Fluid Solver#

Iteratively updates a fluid velocity-grid following Navier-Stokes equations by first applying external forces, then applies the diffusive term, and finally applies advection. In-between, it re-projects the velocities to keep the divergence of the field zero.

Wyvern#

I wrote this game engine for my Computer Science NEA. I’m glad I did it, and its probably the only reason I ever had the courage to really jump into Vulkan, which was super intimidating at the time. That being said, the code hasn’t exactly aged very well. It’s got incomplete physics, a barebones entity system, the input system is still pretty good (does what it needs to do), and the renderer is a complete mess. I was coming from an OpenGL perspective so I tried to mold it into… that. I even created a set of custom container types like a string, vector, hash map, deque, etc…

The renderer maintains a global state and builds pipelines on the fly (which isn’t a bad thing but maintaining global state like that isn’t exactly great). It was incredibly messy to use and shader buffers working was what could only be called a miracle. It was inextensible, and finding bugs was a nightmare (didn’t help I also made my own maths library as well and couldn’t figure out how to get the data to align properly for sending to the GPU, so at any point I had a rendering issue it could have equally come from ten seperate different things). Good times.

When I started Magpie, I used the rendering backend from this as a “base” to start from, though it has been pretty much completely re-written by this point. I also stopped using my own custom containers and maths library because it’s extra work that could be spent elsewhere.

Advent of Code#

My solutions to Advent of Code! I have yet to do 2024 and 2025…

Project Euler#

My solutions to some Project Euler problems!

Monte Carlo Robot Localiser#

Learning about Monte-Carlo localisation, I wanted to try it out on a really simple test case. I imagined a 2D robot on a plain grid, that moved at a constant velocity through space. The idea is the robot could only know a very broad idea of where it was - the grid coordinate. It’s job would be to use this technique to try to figure out it’s exact position and velocity. Imagine you have a map, and know you move from K8 to K9 to J9 to J10, what is your velocity and position? It worked pretty well, but I would like to revisit this in the future and make it more optimised and efficient. One more thing to add to the backburner…

AsciiLand#

My first “real” C project, I wrote it around Year 10. It featured a simple “pure” entity-component-system, map loading, “texture” loading, a renderer, you could move around the map between different chunks, pick up and equip different items, etc… I haven’t tried running it since but I have no doubt it’s full of memory mismanagement errors.

Battle Boats#

Hilariously over-engineered battle boats that I wrote in year 12. Nothing much else to say about that.

Mandelbrot Set Visualiser#

Multithreaded Mandelbrot set visualiser written in Java using Swing.

WinForms Tetris#

It’s literally just Tetris.

Small projects that don’t justify their own repos#

  • Conways Game of Life
  • 2048
  • A* Algorithm Visualised
  • Towers of Hanoi recursive solution
  • Minimum Spanning Tree via Prim’s Algorithm
  • Colour image to ASCII converter
  • BrainFuck interpreter written in C