15-112, or Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science, is Carnegie Mellon University’s main introductory computer science course. For the final three weeks of class, the students are tasked with creating a term project that is complex and interactive, the rest is up to them. My project was named Salvation:

Salvation is a pseudo-3D first person shooter where you must battle through monster-filled levels to escape, picking up valuable items along the way. There are three modes: Campaign, with three pre-made levels; Random, where a map is randomly generated; and the Level Editor, where players can construct their own maps. The method used to create the 3D view is called raycasting, which I learned about from here.

Out of more than 450 students, I was one of 12 selected to present my project in front of the rest of the class. A short video I made about my project can be found here and a gallery of the whole class’s projects is here.