Jacob Lowery

Distributed as a single executable file ~2 MiB in size, Power Play is a server-authoritative top-down shooter & game engine built using a custom codebase written from the ground-up in C99 using zero third-party code, libraries, or dependencies outside of the operating system.

Some highlights include millions of interactive, world-staining particles simulated & rendered during gameplay, fully network-synchronized live level editing, and custom in-engine tooling, such as a real-time instrumenting profiler.

Many of the paradigms & architecture used in building the project were influenced by Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero, Ryan Fleury's Digital Grove articles, and The Rad Debugger codebase.