Five nights at DIFA

Five nights at DIFA is a 2D game developed for the "Programming for Physics" exam at the University of Bologna. The player is trapped inside the Physics department of the University of Bologna and must find three keys before the timer gets to zero to escape from one of the doors at the top of the map. Be careful: other people in the department are getting sick from a deadly virus and will try to infect you!

You can move the character by pressing WASD keys or the ←↑→↓ arrows.

Install required packages

Five nights at DIFA requires two external packages: SFML and tmxlite. You need to install these packages in order to compile and run the game. SFML is available on Ubuntu through the system package manager, so you can install it by running:

$ sudo apt install libsfml-dev

In order to install tmxlite, you will need to have CMake on your system to manually build the library from its source code. These are the steps you must follow to compile and install it:

$ git clone https://github.com/fallahn/tmxlite
$ cd tmxlite/tmxlite
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. -DTMXLITE_STATIC_LIB=TRUE
$ sudo make install

Compile and run

We suggest to compile in Debug mode if you want to develop new features for the game. It can be set up with the following command:

$ cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

Otherwise, you should opt for Release mode, which increases performance at runtime:

$ cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

Compile and execute the program with CMake:

$ cmake --build build --target=fnad
$ build/fnad

Compile and execute tests with CMake:

$ cmake --build build --target=all.test
$ build/all.test

Additional information

Additional information is available, in Italian, in the description of the program written for the exam. It can be found at the following link.