A fledgling, wanna-be-real-game-but-currently-just-a-prototype, game-engine. This project's design is very much inspired by the Handmade Hero series, namely coding style and system architecture (Including probably the greatest architectural decision ever, loading the game code in as a dll to the platform code).
In addition to hot code-reloading, this project explores circle-circle collision, circle-line collision, and my personal favorite and proud discovery, extreme analogstick-sensitivity.
!A controller is required to test the demo.
An Xbox360 controller was used to playtest this project.
A pre-built binary is available within the build folder.
./build/sdl_main.exe
To build a new binary on a Windows environment, first run the appropriate 32-bit
vcvarsall.bat, then ./build.bat.
| Controls | Description |
|---|---|
| Left AnalogStick | Movement |
Note that even super-slight movement can change the player avatar's direction.
Through attempts in debugging and refining player control, I found that values in the deadzone are still reliable to define direction. In fact, deadzone values are actually pretty reliable in terms of precision. It's just that the physical analogstick itself can not reliably return to a (0,0) position. Further research can probably be put into expanding the usage of the deadzone, but I find that limiting it to directional data is sufficiently useful in most cases, as the actual usability of analog sticks within the deadzone region is pretty finicky. Having a chance to rest the thumb is a good idea.
You know how they tell you that you shouldn't make a big game in C as your first project? Well, I certainly didn't listen. Although not technically my first endeavour in vidya games, Mak-Gam is the culmination of my fervorous efforts to relearn programming after some serious mental health degredation earlier that year (2015). I would not have dared carry that fervor were it not for my very dear friend Hurshal Patel. I would not have dared push myself into such an arduous project were it not for Recurse Center. And, I would not have dared to re-evaluate how I code were it not for Casey Muratori.