Robotron 2084

Robotron 2084 is a fast paced twin stick shooter about surviving dense enemy waves while rescuing the last remaining humans. Movement and firing are independent, so every second is a decision between escape, positioning, and aggression.

Recreate the chaos without a commercial engine.

I recreated Robotron’s twin stick core in C and OpenGL, building the gameplay, runtime structure, enemy behaviors, rendering effects, collision, and wave flow from scratch. The project earned Best Overall Game Recreation in my cohort showcase.

• Object oriented C with vtables, function pointers, and callbacks for modular update and draw behavior.
• Object pools for bullets, enemies, and obstacles during dense combat.
• Eight direction movement, sprite animation, vertex color effects, explosions, and level transitions.
• Distinct enemy behaviors including diagonal Grunts, sinusoidal Spheroids, and randomized Quarks.
• AABB collision with type specific handlers, probabilistic wave spawning, and persistent high scores.