nhdaly / paddlebattle.jl

Example game written in julia using SDL2

Paddle Battle -- a simple game written in Julia.

A simple pong clone built in julia using the SDL2 library.

This repo is an example of building a complete game, compiled and distributed as a .app, written entirely in Julia! This game uses the https://github.com/jonathanBieler/SimpleDirectMediaLayer.jl package, which provides julia bindings for SDL2, for its graphics and keyboard/mouse input.

The game can be compiled into a complete, ready-for-release distributable via the build script (./build.sh). It simply invokes build_app.jl from NHDaly/build-jl-app-bundle to compile and bundle a macOS application from the julia code.

Building the game in Julia was lots of fun! Not least, live-editing code in Juno is really nice:

Install

You can download the game for Mac here:
https://nhdalyMadeThis.com

Or you can download it directly from the Releases tab on this github repo:
https://github.com/NHDaly/PaddleBattle.jl/releases/latest

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Please do go ahead and copy it, modify it, remix it, and sell your creation!

paddlebattle.jl's Issues

The app has been modified or damaged

I just tried to install the last version from the Release page and I'm getting this:

"The app has been modified, and its code does not match the original signed code. The app may be broken or corrupted, or it may have been tampered with. If you think that an app has been damaged or tampered with, you should delete it by dragging it to the Trash."

I guess you have to renew the certificate or something of the sort.

Update for Julia 0.7/1.0?

Do you have any plans to update the codebase for 0.7? I so I'd be interested in helping.

General instructions to run on any system

Great little game! Well done!

I just wanted to point out, the instructions (and code!) seemed very mac-specific, so I wasn't sure if this would even work on a non-mac system.

I can confirm I managed to get this to run on linux, but there was a lot of trial-and-error involved to figure out what the game was expecting in place in order to run.

I think you could probably add a small section in your README with simple instructions on how to get this to run normally from within a julia environment (e.g. something like 1. "install these packages", 2. "start from the root game directory, 3. push! src to your LOAD_PATH, 4. import PaddleBattle, 5. run with PaddleBattle.julia_main([""]) ).