Sajbear666

Screenshots from the newer Godot version:

Screenshots from the older Unity version:

Trashcan Game Engine (TGE for short) grew out of the UI code I had built around Trashcan 2346 and Swing.

I did eventually add LWJGL to it and made it 3D.
This of course began with the classic 3d cube, then adding textures, sprites, mouse look and fps controls.

Later I added raycasting for shooting weapons and interacting with the environment.
I also added 3d modell import for the obj format, and JBullet for physics.

Other features included (from the read me):

Library resources:

• 3D Sprites import, Texture import, .obj 3d model import, Font import

Development features:

• Game file (Lua), Player config file (cfg), Launcher config file (cfg)

Ingame features:

• Collision detection, Weapon ray (for weapon collision detection), Quake like Console, Log system

Ingame objects:

• Gravel system, Props system, Primitives, NPCs, 3d tool-tips, Skybox, Simple ground creation

I had plans for an editor but never really got there, so the environment was hardcoded.

I eventually made a game with this engine, PrisonGrind.

A long time ago I had so called "work practice" with my school. (I think I was about 15-16 at the time)
I have always been interesting in making games so I got to practice work at a game publisher called Pan Vision.
It was amazing and they even gave me a motherload of physical games to bring home.
I helped out in the technical support and many other things, but there was one thing that really made an impact on me and that was that I got to beta/alpha test a game called Bandits: Phoenix Rising being made by a company called Grin.
I asked the my mentor Per if he could fix so I got my name in the manual and he said he would think about it!

A copule of months later after the work practice I got a package, it was the game, a cap, a folder, sound track, demo cd, the game and note (I still have that note) that said:

"Look inside the manual! =)"

It was my name, in the manual, under the "Special Thanks" section. I was over the moon.

It makes me emotional just thinking about it to this day!
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Years later, I don't remember when, but I think I saw the patch 1.1.1 for Bandits come out and I noticed some mod support was being added to the game. I thought this was really cool and started to look into modding it and that is how Wolfys Mod got started.

I did a lot of changes, but I was never able to add new 3d models to the game. There was plugins for Grins later versions of the game engine, but not for the one running Bandits.
Which was a real bummer since I had plans to add new vehicles and even mechs!

Other things I added to the mod included (From the read me):

1 new map:

• The Village (WIP)

5 new vehicles:

• Nilsen MK.I. (Tanks) (Custom Sounds)
• Lucys Car. (Wolfpack)
• Alpha Car. (Wolfpack)
• Cougar. (Crusaders)
• Tomahawk. (Crusaders)
• Carters Car. (Crusaders)

8 new weapons:

• Auto Cannon. (Custom Sounds)
• Battle cannon. (Custom Sounds)
• Lucys Launcher.
• Lucys Gun.
• Tomcat Launcher.
• A-Bomb Launcher.(Custom particle explosion)
• Cougar MG.
• Carter Machine gun. (Carters car + machinegun)

Better Multiplayer:

• Spectators in multiplayer.
• Kick function.

In game console (Made from scratch):

• Cheats.
• Debug data.
• Change level.
• Help.
• Spawning.

Misc:

• Support for the Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack.
• Level selector in the menus.
• New custom made backgrounds for the menus.
• Spinning logo!

I even de-compiled the *.exe and wrote a mod manual to make others be able to mod it as well.

Eventually when it got to frustrating not being able to add new 3d models I moved on.
One day I hope that the game will be released on gog.com, Zoom or Steam and that more people can experience the game.

This was my first game.
This is was a super simple console (cmd) game I made first as an exercise in a programming class in high school.

It later it got fleshed out as an actually game in that same class when we where allowed to make projects.
I wrote it together with a class mate.

Much later I cleaned up the code and wrapped it in some UI (Java Swing).

Humble beginnings indeed.