Disaster Squad is a top-down real-time strategy game designed for players aged 12+.
Our theme for this project was the United Nations Sustainable Development goal #13:
"Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"
This game was developed by Conor, Dominik and Merri as part of our third year Project
and Group Dynamics module at Limerick Institute of Technology. We were tasked with
creating a game from scratch using C++ and the Simple and Fast Multimedia Library - SFML.
For more information please visit the Disaster Squad website.
- Tested and confirmed working on Windows 10.
- Download and extract the latest Win10 zip file from the releases page.
- Open the DisasterSquad\binary folder.
- Double click Disaster_Squad.exe to run game.
- Linux can run both the native Linux binary and the Windows executable.
- Install SFML v2.5.1 libraries, the command for this will depend on your distribution.
| Operating System | Command |
|---|---|
| Ubuntu / Debian | sudo apt install libsfml-dev |
| Arch Linux | sudo pacman -S sfml |
- Download and extract the latest linux zip file from the releases page.
- Navigate to DisasterSquad/binary folder and open the Terminal here.
- Run the command
./disaster-squad
- Tested and confirmed working on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Arch Linux. If you experience issues you might be running Wayland and will need to log out and enable Xorg in the bottom right of your login screen. To undo the process logout and select the default option.
- More Linux SFML packages are listed here if you would like to test a different distro.
- Download and extract the latest Win10 zip file from the releases page.
- Follow these short steps to add Disaster_Squad.exe to your Steam Library.
- Select Disaster Squad in your Steam Library and click the cog icon followed by 'Properties'.
- Under compatibility enable Steam Play compatibility tool and from the drop down menu select
Proton 5.13,Proton 6.3orProton 7.0. - You can now play the game from your Steam Library.