Cooking For Dummies

Overview

A 2D cooking game built with a team of five in Qt and C++, using Box2D so dragging and dropping ingredients actually feels physical.

Key Contributions

• Built physics-driven interactions with Box2D, so dragging, dropping, and colliding ingredients felt natural instead of scripted.
• Debugged and optimized gameplay performance so controls stayed responsive under real physics simulation.
• Coordinated with four other developers, which meant writing code other people needed to understand and extend.

Lessons Learned

• Physics-based interactions are unforgiving. A "close enough" collision box breaks the whole feel of a game, so debugging became as much about the experience as the code.

Technologies