Periculum — a game about a contagion environment

Installation

JAR

Head over to the releases section and grab the latest JAR file. This game is built for Java 8, so make sure to have the appropriate JRE. Builds for other versions are coming soon. To run this JAR file, either double click it or launch it from the command line with:

java -jar <release name>.jar

From Source

To build and play the absolute latest version of the game from source, do the following:

• Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/TheAvidDev/periculum.git.
• Open Eclipse IDE (other IDEs will also work, but require some setup not explained here).
• Press File > Import then select Gradle > Existing Gradle Project.
• Keep clicking Next until you can select the Project root directory at which point select the cloned repo and hit Finish.
• Press the Run button after opening up the DesktopLauncher.java in periculum-desktop > src > dev.theavid.periculum.desktop.

Sources

This project was created by @hirundinidae and @TheAvidDev.

This game is built with libGDX so lots of research was required. Some in-game assets such as music and fonts were also found online. Below is an incomplete list of the sources we used, with complete links used where possible.

• https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/
• https://www.badlogicgames.com/forum/
• https://fluentcolors.com/
• https://stackoverflow.com/
• https://gradle.org/
• http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
• https://opengameart.org/content/town-theme-rpg
• https://opengameart.org/content/loading-screen-loop
• https://opengameart.org/content/game-over-0 (converted wav -> mp3)
• https://opengameart.org/content/victory-fanfare-short (converted wav -> mp3)