Darius J Chuck

Old projects

This is a rough list of some of the projects and work I've been involved with.
It is ordered by year (most recent first).
This list is not complete and may be updated in the future.

Each entry contains:

• a description with general information about the project,
• a list of various technologies that I had some contact with in the scope of the project,
• links to related resources, and other relevant information

This list goes from 2007 to 2017. There is also a list of newer projects.

2017
Project: I Have A Stream
Period: 48 hours
Status: completed
Description:
    Summary: Game made in Unity3D for 4th Komiks Game Jam at 28th International Festival of Comics and Games in Lodz
    Roles: programmer
    Team size: 5 (3 programmers, 2 graphic artists)
Technologies:
    Languages: C#
    Engine: Unity3D, experimental Linux version
    Version control: Git
Links:
    Playable browser version: https://vistritium.itch.io/i-have-a-stream
    Playable browser version mirror: http://stream.maciejnowicki.com/index.html
    Gameplay videos: 

    GitLab: https://gitlab.com/virtual92/KomiksGameJam2017

2016
Project: Aega
Period: one semester (5 months)
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: Unreal Engine 4 game
	Roles: main interface programmer, visual scripting
	Team size: < 10
Technologies:
	Languages: Blueprint Visual Scripting, JavaScript
	Engine: Unreal Engine 4
	Version control: Perforce
	Hardware: gamepad
Links:
	Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aegagame/
	Gameplay videos: 
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Notes: I participated in the project as part of classes at Technical University of Lodz and not outside this scope. The project was further developed by some of the members of the original team, later extended by new.

Project: Zippy Web Race
Period: one semester (5 months)
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A simple game in JavaScript, which uses Wii console's Wiimote as the main controller. This is achieved by using a pluggable intermediate/middleware app in Node.js, which communicates with the front-end part (the game) through a WebSocket, passing information from the C++ back-end, which uses a Wiimote library to talk to the controller. Communication with the back-end is achieved by means of inter-process communication.
	Team size: 3
	Roles: programmer
Technologies:
	Languages: JavaScript, C++
	Environments: Node.js
	Modules: node-ipc (for local Inter Process Communication)
	Hardware: Wiimote for Wii
Links:
	Gameplay video: 


Project: Software raytracer and renderer in JavaScript
Period: one semester (5 months)
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: Implemented a software raytracer and renderer in JavaScript from scratch. This involved implementation of a math library for managing vectors, matrices and other mathematical objects as well as simple .obj parser.
Technologies:
	Languages: JavaScript
Links:
	GitHub: https://github.com/djedr/js_renderer

2015
Project: Audi Joyride
Period: one semester (5 months)
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: a Unity3D game made for Audi as a part of a competition.
	Team size: 5
Technologies:
	Languages: C#
	Engine: Unity3D
Links:
	GitHub: https://github.com/Vistritium/The-Light-
Media
	Gameplay video:
    


Project: A prototype of a real-time strategy (RTS) game on Unreal Engine 4
Period: ~2 months
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A collaborative project. The goal was to develop a prototype of an RTS game on top of Unreal Engine 4, examine and describe various parameters of the system and propose optimization possibilities
	Tasks: AI implementation and measurement of relationship of number of AI units to game frame rate
	Team size: ~6
	Role: AI programmer, researcher
Technologies:
	Languages: Blueprints Visual Scripting
	Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Links:
	Report in Polish: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vNnJADn69Q02vaYTtclFCPalS68Ij90ZPh3p3ocCMFA/pub

Project: An emotion-recognition application
Period: one semester (5 months)
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: Part of a larger application, which demonstrates biometric techniques of speech and emotion recognition. I was the main developer of the module, which does face recognition and simple emotion recognition (smile, sadness, frown).
	Tasks: module development, integration of modules
	Roles: module leader, programmer
	Team sizes:
		Emotion recognition module: 2
		Audio recognition module: 2
Technologies:
	Languages: C, C++
	Libraries: OpenCV
Links:
	Report in Polish: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yI5cevYwGTnOmP5xvdTMva8xtwUACNXTrrVKB75RWjg/pub

2014
Project: Frogger clone for a microcontroller
Period: one semester (5 months)
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A clone of the classic Frogger game for a microcontroller. Written in C.
	Team size: 3
	Roles: team leader, programmer
Technologies:
	Platform: embedded
	Languages: C
	Hardware:
		Name: LPC2103 Education Board
		Description: a simple microcontroller extended with a small 256-color display
Links:
	GitHub: https://github.com/Vistritium/frogger---systemy-wbudowane
	Documentation in Polish: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13TrMJNpzOgk-y1-DD2jQypkYj4CYQPc473BK7LVEId4/pub

Project: Near- and far-sightedness  simulation in Unreal Engine 4
Period: 2 months
Status: completed
Description:
	Description: An application, which simulates visual distortions caused by near- and far-sightedness.
	Role: leader, programmer
	Team size: 2
Technologies:
	Languages: C#, Blueprints Visual Scripting
	Engines: Unity3D, Unreal Engine 4
Links:
	Presentation in Polish: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OVtLC7NekSbZf7XETf9goonYk1ZUCesJmIPKrRWKFYU/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Project: A business website for Marketing classes
Period: 2.5 months
Status: completed
Description:
	Team size: 2
	Roles: programmer, designer
Technologies:
	Languages: JavaScript, HTML, CSS/LESS
	Frameworks: Bootstrap
Links:
	GitHub: https://github.com/Vistritium/MarketingPage
	Description in Polish: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FqSdF4yLodOjSN4n11OiZI1DuTQuT3Biu9dXTy4PjFI/pub

Project: Get To The Core
Period: weekend
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A simple game in Lua for Ludum Dare competition #29. The theme of the competition was Beneath the Surface.
Technologies:
	Languages: Lua
	Engine: LÖVE
Links:
	Ludum Dare entry: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=35204

Project: 15 puzzle solver
Period: ~1 month
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: I implemented a program in C, which can solve the 15 puzzle using different algorithms, including Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, A* and variants of these, which use heuristics. Then, using this program I thoroughly examined the effectiveness of each algorithms in terms of speed.
Technologies:
	Languages: C
	Tools: gnuplot
Links:
	Wikipedia description of the puzzle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle
	Report in Polish: http://djedr.github.io/pdf/15_puzzle.pdf

Project: Angry Metal Through Time
Period: ~2 months
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A 1D turn-based strategy game featuring fuzzy logic and competing agents. The game is intended to be played by AI agents who use fuzzy logic to make decisions.
	Team size: 5
	Role: programmer, designer
Technologies:
	Languages: C#, FuzzScript
	Libraries: FuzzScript
	Version control: SVN
Links:
	Report in Polish: http://djedr.github.io/pdf/AMTT.pdf
	FuzzScript's home page: https://www.codeproject.com/articles/47795/fuzzscript-a-fuzzy-logic-control-language

2013
Project: Music video game prototype
Period: ~3 months
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: a dynamic, music-based video game for Android, controlled by gestures drawn on the screen. Features random level generation.
	Team size: ~5
	Roles: programmer, designer
Technologies:
	Engine: Unity3D
	Platform: Android
	Languages: UnityScript (JavaScript dialect)
	Libraries: $P Recognizer (translated to UnityScript and tweaked)
Links:
	$P Recognizer's website: https://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/pdollar.html

Project: The Planet is Fine
Period: ~1 month
Status: completed
Description
	Summary: a space game made in Game Maker. Features procedural graphics, spaceships, planets, gravity.
Technologies:
	Languages: GML (Game Maker Language)
	Environments: Game Maker

Project: A Pac-Man clone with a twist
Period: ~1 month
Status: completed
Description
	Summary: a Pac-Man clone made in Game Maker with changed mechanics. The maze is constructed out of circular obstacles -- planets. Pacman moves continuously, orbiting the planets. Game is controlled with one key, which is used for moving from planet to planet.
Technologies:
	Languages: GML (Game Maker Language)
	Environments: Game Maker

Project: SŁODZIK -- System Łatwej Obsługi Dziekanatu
Period: ~2 months
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A GUI application in Java, which manipulates a database, which contains information about students and grades and generates various plots from that data.
	Team size: 2
	Role: team leader, main programmer
Technologies:
	Languages: Java, SQL
	Database: SQLite
	Libraries: JFreeChart, ORMLite

Project: Heroes of Might and Magic III clone
Period: one semester (5 months)
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: a clone of the classic Heroes of Might and Magic III game in Java for OOP classes
	Team size: ~6
	Role: combat system programmer
Technologies:
	Languages: Java
	Engine: Slick2D
	Version control: SVN
Links:
	Combat system documentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0pbAyWv9KGGqA5s7Rv15QVK_n9FvTxsfx7--NtdUCE/pub

Project: An application which simulates cellular automatons, notably Conway's Game of Life
Period: ~2.5 months
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: An application which simulates cellular automatons, started out as an extension of Conway's Game of Life. Features two simple scripting languages. First, high-level, for controlling the simulation. Embedded in this language is another, low-level Brainfuck-like language, for manipulating the cells. It's different from Brainfuck in that it operates on a 2D grid instead of 1D tape, so it has commands for moving in two spatial dimensions. The user can change the rules of the game, creating different cellular automatons.
	Team size: 2
	Role: team leader, main programmer
Technologies:
	Languages: C, C++, scripting DSLs
	Libraries: SFML, ncurses
	Tools: Doxygen + GraphViz
Links:
	Documentation in Polish: http://djedr.github.io/pdf/GoL.pdf
	Readme in Polish: http://djedr.github.io/txt/gol-readme

2011
Project: Vortex
Period: 24 hours
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A game for 24 hour game development competition at Zjazd Twórców Gier 2011 (now Game Industry Conference)
	Team size: 2
	Role: graphic artist
Technologies:
	Languages: C++
	Libraries: SFML
	Tools: Gimp
Links:
	Conference's current home page: http://gic.gd/en/

2009
Project: Various games written in D
Description:
	Summary: Mostly written for game development competitions. Feature hand-drawn quirky graphics, badly recorded audio, hand-made fonts.
Technologies:
	Languages: D
	Libraries: DSFML, Tango

Project: Various applications written in C++
Description:
	Summary: Among these: an application for controlling a hand-made binary clock through LPT port. A GUI application written in C++ with Qt, which provides an interface for controlling the behavior of a stepper motor.
Technologies:
	Languages: C++
	Frameworks: Qt
	Hardware: stepper motor, a binary clock made of LEDs and an LPT cable

2008
Project: Various websites
Description:
	Summary: Mostly personal websites for publishing my content: comics, short stories, drawings, music, English to Polish translations. Also some websites for "clients". Feature custom picture galleries, comment systems, etc.
Technologies:
	Languages: PHP, (X)HTML, CSS

Project: A Content Management System written in PHP
Period: ~2 months
Status: closed
Description:
	Summary: Featured post and comments systems, configurability, internationalization, administration interface. An interesting albeit quirky feature of the system was that data was stored in .php files used similarly to JSON. It was read simply by PHP's parser and updated by editing files with the help of some regular expression magic.
Technologies:
	Languages: PHP, (X)HTML, CSS

Project: PAJonK
Period: ~14 days
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A side-scrolling shoot 'em up game for a game development competition. Features quirky graphics. The game was remade in 2013 in JavaScript.
	Role: graphic artist
	Team size: 2
Technologies:
	Languages: C++
	Tools: MS Paint
Links:
	Remake project's page: http://warsztat.gd/projects/Pajonk/info
Media:
    

Project: pwn3d
Period: ~7 days
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A console-based turn-based strategy game emulating graphics with text. Written for a game programming competition. The game was compared by players to Advance Wars. Features a level editor.
Technologies:
	Languages: C++

Project: Various games written in C++
Description:
	Summary: Mostly written for game development competitions. Mostly console/command-line based. Feature graphics simulated with text and 16 console colors.
Technologies:
	Languages: C++

2007
Project: Posłaniec
Period: ~1 month
Status: completed
Description:
	Summary: A Single-User Dungeon (SUD) game, which is a single-player offline equivalent of a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) game. This was the first non-trivial game that I developed in C++.
Technologies:
	Languages: C++
Links:
	Wikipedia article on MUDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

Early years
My experience with application development started around 2002, when I created my first computer game using The Games Factory, a visual game development tool. I started learning my first programming language, C++, around 2004.

I was involved in a major Polish game development community based around the website gamedev.pl (later moved to warsztat.gd, no longer online today; archives: gamedev.pl, warsztat.gd), participating in game development competitions, even organizing one. I was also briefly involved in the development of Warlock's Gauntlet – a major project written in C++, created by members of the communtiy. I learned the basics of the Squirrel scripting language as a part of this project.

I went on to learn many more programming languages (such as C, D, Vala, Pascal), writing computer games for competitions and various small projects. I also got interested in web development, learning some (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, basic JavaScript, SQL and creating websites and a content management system.