Marc ten Bosch
Miegakure
Miegakure is a platform game where you explore the fourth dimension to solve puzzles. Our world is three-dimensional: width, depth, and height. But what if there was a fourth physical dimension that we cannot see, in addition to the other three?
Entropy Prototype
A musical painting experience from one hundred miles above the earth. A continually evolving musical score underlies the creation of realistic cloud and land formations. Less of a game, more an experience that is meant to be savored. 5 person team including an artist and a composer.
- Made in 2 days for Global Game Jam
- IndieGames.com Best of Global Game Jam
PrometheusZ
Innovative Cooperative Shoot'em up. 1 person team / 3 months. PrometheusZ is a vertical shooter with a unique gameplay mechanic that gives it puzzle-like aspects. In PrometheusZ you can shoot a beam of light that attaches itself to certain spots on enemies and environments. You can use it to attack from the side or the back, grab onto/pull/spin other ships, destroy bullets and much more.
Restricted Coloring using Saliency-based Image Segmentation
Two different methods of restricting the number of colors used to draw a certain image, while preserving detail in salient regions. In both methods, images are segmented based on saliency data, assigning larger regions to less salient areas of the image, and filling each region with its mean color. (With Jae Lee, S.)
- SIGGRAPH 2006 Poster Session
- Student Research Competition Grad-level finalist
Nonconvex Rigid Bodies with Stacking Implementation
Convex rigid bodies with collision, contact, friction (kinetic, static), stacking, and fracture. Implemented the Nonconvex Rigid Bodies with Stacking paper by Guendelman et Al.
Real-Time Hardware-Determined Feature Edges
Hardware silhouette detection and rendering. I implement and extend Morgan McGuire and John F. Hughes's Hardware-Determined Feature Edges, and introduce the notion of a "partial silhouette". Using the default algorithm, as the scene changes, different contour edges are identified, creating an unpleasant "popping" effect. To remedy this, I transform the discrete version of the XOR into a continuous version.
- NPAR 2006 Poster Session
Real-Time Non-Photorealistic Paint Spreading using Stencil Volumes
I borrow the concept of a stencil volume from shadow volumes and apply it to the simulation of a fluid spreading on a surface, without resorting to a texture-based approach. I introduce stencil paint volumes that grow in real-time using a physically-based system. Points inside the paint volumes are rendered in color, and those outside in black-and-white.
- SIGGRAPH 2005 Poster Session
- Student Research Competition Undergrad-level finalist
- Developed for the game Orblitz
Non-photorealistic rendering of trees and smoke using billboards
I apply and extend Morgan McGuire, Andi Fein, and Colin Hartnett's Real-time Cartoon Rendering of Smoke to the rendering of Pen-and-Ink Trees. For trees, the goal is to mimic the style of Computer-Generated Pen-and-Ink Illustration of Trees by Deussen and Strothotte.
Non-photorealistic Shading
Researching and implementing NPR shading models such as Pen and Ink, Celshading, Gooch shading, Anisotropic lighting. Introducing "Goochel" shading, a combination of Gooch and cel-shading :) It applies the celshading step function to the full range lighting dot product (as opposed to the clamped dot product of Phong shading).
Raytracing / Photon mapping
Photon mapping is an extension of ray tracing that can handle Caustics and Diffuse Interreflection (Color Bleeding). Ray tracing using Local and global illumination models, reflection and refraction using Fresnel equations, shadows of transparent objects, and more...
Orblitz
3D Physics Based Puzzle Game. 4 person team / 11 months. Orblitz is a 3D physics-based puzzle game, a cross between Marble Madness and Lemmings. Responsible for: Game/level design, Graphics code/shaders, Rigid-Body Physics, Gameplay, Art.
- 2006 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase Winner
- Creation and development of unique graphic style, presented at SIGGRAPH
- C/C++, Lua, OpenGl, Cg, SDL, Fmod
Advanced Animation and Modeling
At DigiPen, CS460 is divided into 4 coding projects: Skeletal animation; Path following and motion blending; Inverse Kinematics; and finally Rigid Body Dynamics. Subjects such as animation file formats, quaternions (interpolation, splines), and Catmull-Rom splines (my favorite kind :) ), are covered in the process. I was also the TA for the class, where I lectured about importing data from animation file formats, making an exporter for 3D Studio MAX, and other topics.
2D Skeletal Animation and Character Editor
Character and animation editor for Crimson Legend. Our goal was to create a 2D fighting game that did not require us to draw each individual frame of animation. We decided to design a 2D skeletal animation system, similar to what is done in 3D animation and modeling package such as Maya, but in 2D.
Crimson Legend
2D skeletal animation fighting game. 5 person team / 7 months. Crimson Legend is a fast-paced, two player only, 2D fighter featuring cool dark characters with outrageous powers and speed that encourages aggressive gameplay. Responsible for: Technical direction/design, scheduling of milestones and tasks.
- Development of skeletal animation tool used by artists to create all the characters, animations and other content