NOTE: This project is currently on hold because I want to explore other areas of programming. I may or may not come back to this specific project, but I will definitely be coming back to game development in the future. As of the time of writing, the game is playable wth one level and a boss fight.
(last updated README.md on June 22, 2015)
A 2D space shooter named... Space Shooter...
Currently supported on Linux and Windows. An OS X build is planned for the future.
Due to copyright issues, the music I used will not be included. If you want to use your own music, create the directory "data/audio/music" and put your music in there. The file extention must be ".ogg".
The following audio file names will correspond to the state it will be played in:
- Menu State: menu.ogg
- Game State: level1.ogg
- Boss Fight: boss.ogg
- Victory State: win.ogg
- Game Over State: lose.ogg
Assets are courtesy of Kenney, who can be found here: http://kenney.nl/
This application is written in C++ using the SDL2 library. C++ was the language of choice because it is the de facto standard in the gaming industry. The game engine is rolled by hand, because this project was originally done as a learning exercise on software architeture and to learn about game engines. This is also the reason why an off the shelf game engine like Unity was not used.
As previously mentioned, this project was originally done as a learning exercise. However, these goals have evolved into creating a complete open source game that is polished enough to ship. This means, that the envisioned final product will be cross platform and will feature:
- smooth menu transitions
- customizable levels/enemies (currently through XML, but will eventually want to have an embedded lua scripting environment for enemy behaviour)
- co-operative mode
- more as seen fit
Dependancies: lSDL2, lSDL2_image, lSDL2_ttf, and lSDL2_mixer.
[1] Run the following commands on bash:
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sudo apt-get update
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apt-cache search libsdl2
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sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
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sudo apt-get install libsdl2-image-dev
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sudo apt-get install libsdl2-ttf-dev
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sudo apt-get install libsdl2-mixer-dev
[2] Navigate to the directory where you want the project to be cloned and run the following commands:
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make all
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cd bin
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./SpaceShooter
[1] Download the following Windows mingw development libraries and extract them all to a common directory:
- SDL2
- SDL2_image
- SDL2_ttf
- SDL2_mixer
[2] Clone the repository: https://github.com/brandonto/sdl-space-shooter
[3] Set up a Code::Blocks project
[4] Move the contents of the cloned repository into the project folder
[5] In "Project Build Options>Search Directories>Compiler" add:
C:\PATH-TO-EXTRACTED-DIRECTORY\include\SDL2
[6] In "Project Build Options>Search Directories>Linker" add:
C:\PATH-TO-EXTRACTED-DIRECTORY\lib
[7] In "Project Build Options>Linker Settings>Other Linker Options" add:
-lmingw32 -lSDL2main -lSDL2 -lSDL2_image -lSDL2_ttf -lSDL2_mixer
[8] Build and run
Thanks to the following people for contributing to this project:
Sergey Matyunin (https://github.com/serge-m)
Yuriy Rivniy (https://github.com/YR17)