Hyundai Veloster HD
Developer: 2XL Games, Inc. for the Hyundai Motor Company
Released: 2009
Platforms: iOS
Features
- Multiple race tracks for racing two different Hyundai vehicles.
- Product images, videos, and 3D panoramas that advertise Hyundai's new Veloster vehicle as well as their new "NEW THINKING. NEW POSSIBILITIES." slogan.
- Online leaderboards and customizable controls.
Contributions
- I updated our engine's text renderer to support right-to-left languages. This allowed us to display Arabic for the first time.
- The game re-skinned a lot of screens I had implemented in previous games. I only had to perform minor tweaks for the new UI flow.
This project was a great opportunity to play a new car that was being released.
This is a screenshot taken while debugging the text render to support Arabic. Implementing Arabic was a great challenge. Arabic is read from right-to-left so I started by updating our text renderer to be able to render text glyphs from the right side of a text box. This quickly lead to another problem. Arabic is read from right-to-left but if an Arabic sentence contains numbers or English words then that text would need to be rendered from left-to-right. This was addressed by measuring the inner English text width, offset the rendering position by that width, rendering the English left-to-right, switch back to rendering right-to-left, offset the rendering cursor again so that it will begin to the left of the English, and continue rendering as usual. This method proved sufficient for our needs.
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