Introduction

Symphony of space explosions (S.O.S.E) is a multiplayer real-time strategy game. It was developed as an academic project for the modules CS3283 & CS3284 (Media Technology Project) in 2013 and 2014.

It is similar to the board game Battleship with a few twists. The game is played in real-time, players to have gather resources construct buildings and weapons just like a normal RTS game. However, they conduct their activities in separate floating islands and attack each other by sending missiles and robots towards the opponent’s base much like a game of Battleship.

My role and contributions

I was the lead programmer in a team of 4 students. My main contributions were:

• Creating a framework for a networked RTS game using lockstep, bucketed synchronization.
• Creating a framework for hot reloading of assets and scripts.
• Program some of the basic units’ behaviours.

Technologies and tools used

• Moai engine: http://getmoai.com/
• C/C++ for creating a customized Moai host
• Lua for gameplay programming
• Visual Studio 2010 for C/C++ development
• Vim for script editing
• git

Source code

Available at: https://github.com/jarbology/SOSE

Screenshots

Title screen

A player is attacking his enemy’s base which is still covered with fog of war

Buildings can be created from a ring menu which reduces unnecessary mouse movement