Weather Wizard

Weather Wizard is a game made in C++ using Javidx9/OneLoneCoder's PixelGameEngine. It's a 2D Platformer and it consists of our main character, the Wizard, trying to get to a portal by going through the level. The Wizard has weather powers, which means that he can transform the weather blocks around him by using his wands. The blocks act differently in each weather:

• Hot blocks are only solid in Summer
• Ice blocks are only solid in Winter
• Wind blocks only blow strongly in Fall
• Flower blocks are only climbable in Spring

This game was developed for the OneLoneCoderK::CodeJam2022. It got ranked #25 out of 81 entries overall. Its best ranking was in the Impression category ("Score low for unimpressive, high for impressive").

Build

The project is built using CMake:

cmake --build ./out

It can also be compiled for the browser (!!) via WebAssembly. To do so, you must get the https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/ package and launch their pre-configured terminal and then run the command to build. I couldn't get their cmake environment to work, so I just ran the full thing everytime. It's ugly, but it works (I should've created a .bat file or a Makefile for this but I'm too lazy for that). Here's the full command:

em++ -std=c++17 -O2 -s ALLOW_MEMORY_GROWTH=1 -s MAX_WEBGL_VERSION=2 -s MIN_WEBGL_VERSION=2 -s USE_LIBPNG=1 "src/WeatherWizard.cpp" "src/main.cpp" "src/Renderers/WandBarRenderer.cpp" "src/Managers/GameEntityManager.cpp" "src/Renderers/SkyBoxRenderer.cpp" "src/Managers/AssetManager.cpp" "src/WandBar.cpp" "src/Renderers/MapRenderer.cpp" "src/Map.cpp" "src/Renderers/WizardRenderer.cpp" "src/Controls/MovementControl.cpp" "src/Controls/InteractionControl.cpp" "src/Wizard.cpp" "src/Renderers/EndGameRenderer.cpp" "src/Controls/EndGameControl.cpp" "src/Renderers/MenuRenderer.cpp" -o web-build/pge.html --preload-file ./Assets

You can check out this video for further instructions

Notes

• The code isn't perfect and when the deadline was getting closer and closer, the code was transforming more and more into spaghetti. It's still okay though, I was able to create a pretty cool architecture, even if not the most optimized. I never really studied game design, so this is what I could come up with from a pure code design standpoint (in a week)
• The 2D platformer collision algorithm was taken from a video by Javidx9