gcardozo123 / steel

2d game framework pet project using C++17, SDL2, Entt and Catch2

steel

2d game framework pet project using C++17, SDL2, Entt and Catch2. Definitely not ready for serious usage.

Inspiration

Similarities are not coincidences, I've been taking a lot of inspiration from:

• Hazel
• Halley
• Heaps
• Game Coding Complete 4th edition
• Deepnight gameBase and deepnightlibs
• Tyler Glaiel's How to make your game run at 60fps article

Building the environment

This project contains submodules, either clone it using

git clone --recurse-submodules <repository_link>

or, after cloning it, run:

git submodule update --init --recursive

and make sure that submodules under cmake and third_party were properly cloned.

This project uses Miniconda as a package manager and conda devenv. After installing Miniconda you need to install conda-devenv on your base (root environment) with:

conda activate base 
conda install conda-devenv
conda deactivate

Then in order to create the environment run on the root of this project:

conda devenv

And to activate it, just call:

conda activate steel

Building the project

On the root of this repository, execute:

build_steel.bat

Notes:

1. Inside build/ there will be a Visual Studio Solution (steel.sln) and in order to make sure Visual Studio is initialized with all the correct environment variables, it's a good idea to open it from the command line with steel environment active. I use an alias to make that easier:

alias vs="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"

steel's Issues

Add support for animated sprites

Preferably using an atlas

Add support to serialize and deserialize scenes

Consider using TOML files

Add aliases for numeric types

Add support for tiled maps

Use flecs instead of mantaining own ECS

flecs seems to be a good fit to avoid having to mantain my own ECS.

Keep aspect ratio when resizing the window

Add json parser

Json seems like a good one