Emberguard

A 2D RPG x Tower Defense game built in C++ using SFML, developed from scratch as a personal learning project to explore game architecture and object-oriented programming.

Features

• Core systems: NPC dialogue, enemies, item inventory, save/load mechanism.
• OOP design: modular classes for entities, world management, and rendering.
• Data persistence with JSON-based save files.
• Custom resource management and event-driven system.

Technologies

• Language: C++
• Libraries: SFML
• Paradigms: Object-Oriented Programming, Event-driven Design

What I Learned

• Applied OOP principles (encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism) to build maintainable code.
• Designed reusable subsystems from scratch.
• Improved debugging and memory management in C++.

Documentation

• Installation Guide
• Functionality Overview