ViaRE is a Real Emulator. (Yup, a recursive acronym)
Also, by the nature of ViaRE, and its deep relations with the concepts of "Origin" and "Beginning", we tought it nice to have a name inspired by them.
And the italian word avviare (to start, initiate, begin) fitted perfectly.
For now, we just avviamo the project, and we don't have any realease of it. In the future, ViARE will be a game with powerful emulation properties.
Because of it, this README will be only useful to developers who may want to get a working copy of the code.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
Source code is in D, so make sure you install a D Compiler. We use DMD.
You can follow Linux, Windows, or OSX instructions to get it installed.
To make sure it's working, run
$ dmd --version
# DMD64 D Compiler vX.XXX.XXTo build, run, and test the source code, we use DUB.
To install it, follow these instructions.
To make sure it's working, run
$ dub --version
# DUB version Version: X.X.X-XViaRE is built using SDL2 and Open GL.
Doing a proper SDL2 installation for development on Windows can be tricky. This video could be useful.
To install SDL2 on Linux, follow official SDL instructions. We recommend to follow "The Unix Way", as it will avoid missing .so files.
You'll need Git installed, to clone the repository*.
# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/viare/viare
# Go into the repository
$ cd viare
# Run the app
$ dub run
If you don't want to install git, you can download it in zip, and unpack it.
Just use:
dub test
This will run every unittest inside sourcecode.
- quevangel - Initial work
- davidomarf - Initial work
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE.md file for details
- Martin O'Leary, @mewo2, for writing an extensive guide on generating fantasy maps and naming languages
- Amit Patel, @redblobgames, for his writing about polygonal map generation