xcube2d

A simple 2D game engine based on SDL 2.0 to teach core game elements.

Dependencies

To simplify development, the following libraries are included:

• SDL 2.0.9
• SDL_image 2.0.5
• SDL_mixer 2.0.4
• SDL_ttf 2.0.15

Build

The project is configured to be developed on Windows, so it only includes Windows-specific SDL versions, however you should be able to build on Linux and Mac OS by getting appropriate SDL distributions.

To build, you will need:

• CMake 3.6+ (Download binary Windows win64-x64 ZIP)
• Visual Studio 2019

1. Download this repository by clicking "Clone or download" -> Download zip.
2. Extract the zip file and rename xcube2d-master to xcube.

Open the command line (via Git Bash ("git for windows")):

cd xcube2d
mkdir build
cd build

// Note: if running on Uni machines, it's /c/Program\ Files/CMake/bin/cmake rather than just cmake
// Note: if running on own machine, check where you downloaded cmake to and point there

cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 16 2019"

After this, a ".sln" will be generated in build/.

1. Open the ".sln" file with Visual Studio 2019.
2. Right click on MyGame in project explorer and select as startup project.
3. Right click on MyGame again and select Properties.
4. In the properties window, Linker -> System and change SubSystem to Console.
5. Copy the res/ directory to the build directory.

You can now run the demo from Visual Studio via Local Windows Debugger.

Task

Read the assignment brief!

You should only modify:

• MyEngineSystem.h
• MyEngineSystem.cpp
• MyGame.h
• MyGame.cpp