Basic Game Physics

By Aaron Holowienka

This is week one on the project and I am starting by going straight into the physics engine. I plan to have basic implementation for a ball to be able to move around a scene with use of physics and to have basic collision checking. The ball should be able to bounce off the ground and walls. My plan of attack for this is to implement the rigid body component of our game object to be able to interface with the physics engine. The rigid body will hold the basic physics values for a game object, such as velocity, acceleration, and position, and the physics engine will access these values and use them to move the ball. The physics engine will have a list of all the game objects in the scene and use this list to check collision with each rigid body. I will check collision with a sphere to AABB check and if collision is registered a plan to reverse the velocity for a basic bouncing action for now.