mesuperdev/nothing

A simple platformer about nothing

Nothing

Dependencies

• gcc or clang or MSVC 2015+
• cmake
• libsdl2-dev

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install gcc cmake libsdl2-dev

MacOS

$ brew install gcc cmake sdl2

NixOS

For NixOS we have a development environment defined in default.nix with all of the required dependencies. You can enter the environment with nix-shell command:

$ nix-shell

Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S gcc cmake sdl2

Windows

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2015+
• SDL2 VC Development Libraries

MinGW

• mingw-w64
• SDL2 MinGW Development Libraries

Quick Start

Linux

CMake

$ mkdir build
$ cd build/
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ ./nothing

SCU

$ ./build-posix.sh
$ ./nothing

Windows

Visual Studio

• Enter the Visual Studio Command Line Development Environment https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/building-on-the-command-line
  • Basically just find vcvarsall.bat and run vcvarsall.bat x64 inside of cmd
• Download SDL2 VC Development Libraries and copy it to path\to\nothing

> cd path\to\nothing
> 7z x SDL2-devel-2.0.9-VC.zip
> move SDL2-2.0.9 SDL2
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ..
> cmake --build .
> .\nothing

MinGW (with MSYS)

$ cd path/to/nothing
$ wget https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-devel-2.0.10-mingw.tar.gz
$ tar xzf SDL2-devel-2.0.10-mingw.tar.gz
$ mv SDL2-2.0.10 SDL2
$ rm SDL2-devel-2.0.10-mingw.tar.gz
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. -G "MSYS Makefiles"
$ cmake --build .
$ ./nothing

MinGW (without MSYS)

• Download SDL2 MinGW Development Libraries and copy it to path\to\nothing

> cd path\to\nothing
> 7z x SDL2-devel-2.0.10-mingw.tar.gz -so | 7z x -si -ttar
> move SDL2-2.0.10 SDL2
> del SDL2-devel-2.0.10-mingw.tar.gz
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake .. -G "MinGW Makefiles"
> cmake --build .
> .\nothing

Controls

Game

Keyboard

Key	Action
d	Move to the right
a	Move to the left
w/SPACE	Jump
c	Open debug console
r	Reload the current level including the Player's position
q	Reload the current level preserving the Player's position
p	Toggle game pause
l	Toggle transparency on objects. Useful for debugging levels
TAB	Switch to Level Editor
CTRL+q	Quit the game

Gamepad

Button	Action
Left Stick	Movement of the Player
1	Jump

Consolé

Key	Action
ESC	Exit console
Enter	Evaluate the expression
Up/Down	Traverse console history
CTRL+L	Clear
Ctrl+X, CTRL+W	Cut
Ctrl+C, ALT+W	Copy
Ctrl+V, CTRL+Y	Paste

Level Editor

To access the Level Editor open a level and press TAB.

Key	Action
s	Save level
Mouse Wheel	Zoom and pan
CTRL+z	Undo
q	Toggle snapping mode
SHIFT+Up/Down	Change overlaping order of selected object
CTRL+c/v	Copy/paste selected object
F2	Rename selected object
DELETE	Delete selected object

Support

You can support my work via

• Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/subs/tsoding
• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tsoding