Check out what I made in my university's graphics course

**SmugDuckling** · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 576

So I am in the final year of a Computer Science degree at the University of Waterloo, and I just finished taking a Graphics course. Everyone in the course has to do a final graphical project of some kind. A lot of people do simulations, ray tracers (to draw 3D images), and some do games.

Due to my rampant music game nerdery, I decided to make a prototype of a game that I've wanted to exist for a long time. Saxophone Hero!

Short video with sound:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjp3t6JTIAs

Here's a longer video with no sound (it was messing up my recording and getting out of sync) that shows some of the models more closely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5WhZ96OI8

The game is made entirely from scratch using OpenGL and has cel shading, shadows, animations, advanced instrument models :P, reflections, particle effects, etc.

The song is the intro to Giant Steps by John Coltrane.
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**FL4RE** · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 4178 Location: Liverpool yano

Really good...But what are the random "meh" sounds?
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**SmugDuckling** · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 576

**DVDSmith** · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 1271 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Awesome job!

**FL4RE** · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 4178 Location: Liverpool yano

Ohh fair enough :P Is it your voice that you recorded & put in?
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**SmugDuckling** · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 576

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**ShiftBreaker** · Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 4708

The saxophone noises should've been this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kLxLdtIiE

Other than that, pretty great.

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**ComicBookGuru** · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 1678

Wow! This is my intended major and to see that something like this can come out of four years of work excites me greatly.

How much did you know when you went into college?
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**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

I saw Waterloo and figured it would be good.

You just need pro mode and I'm sold ;)
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**LordTyrano** · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 201 Location: D.F. Mexico

WTF play a real sax

(I'm obviously joking)
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**SmugDuckling** · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 576

**iTzAeroMaiden** · Joined: 02 Jul 2009 Posts: 170 Location: Orlando, Florida

Oh my gosh hahaha. That was absolutely epic! I loved it!

**Kawigi** · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 2879 Location: Redmond, WA

It is one small leap for a man, but one Giant Steps for musicgamekind.

Doesn't that song have some crazy solos or something? Where are they?
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**akwok** · Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 199

Dude. CS488 represent! Did you take it with Kaplan?

This brings back memories of staying in the CG lab for a week straight to finish up my own project...