xenowarrior/starshipfontana

A demonstration 2d game in C++ using SDL

Starship Fontana

This is an example C++ application using the SDL library. It tries to be as nicely C++11 as possible but do keep in mind that SDL is written in C and, at some stage, you have to interface with it.

Story

The evil b’Kuhn has stolen the code to Earth’s defence system. With this code he can, at any time, defeat the entire human race. Only one woman is brave enough to go after b’Kuhn. Will she be Earth’s hero? Puzzle your way though the universe in the company of Commander Fontana in Starship Fontana.

Installation

You will need the SDL development libraries installed on your system.

This installation guide assumes the use of Fedora.

Start by installing the required libraries:

• Groups:
• • C Development Tools and Libraries
• Packages:
• • SDL2-devel
• • SDL2_image-devel
• • gcc-c++

You can run the commands below to fetch these libraries:

  $ yum groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"
  $ yum install SDL2-devel SDL2_image-devel gcc-c++

The easiest way to compile is to use a command-line. The commands below will compile the game into an executable file starship in the top-level directory:

  $ g++ -c src/*.cpp
  $ g++ -o starship *.o -l SDL2 -l SDL2_image

To run the compiled game do the following:

  $ ./starship

From the top-level directory, the game will expect to find the assets directory under its current working directory.

• Repo
• • starship (executable)
• • assets (folder)
• • src (folder)
• • [etc ...]

Issues

• SDL1 to SDL2 port introduced bounding box collision issues.
• Coin does not collect properly.

Credits

The sprites in this game come directly from SpriteLib and are used under the terms of the CPL 1.0.

The event system is based on Libsigc++ and is used under the LGPL.

The main game code comes from AidanDelaney/StarshipFontana please check the LICENCE for more information.