An entry game for the raylib 5k gamejam written in 8 days (2022-01-21T19:00Z to 2022-01-29T19:00Z) on using C++ on top of Raylib.
In the year 2374 humanity has reached for the start and colonized many worlds. They believed to be alone in the universe but that year proved them wrong!
It was the year humanity crossed path with the alien group they named Cicadas, as science revealed they where dormant for a few thousand years but reappeared and claimed their area of space back.
Humanity fought hard, but failed, so they decided to evacuate those colonies and you are chosen to protect their retreat...
Currently the game only supports keyboard control:
SPACE- fire your weaponLEFTorA- move to the leftRIGHTorD- move to the rightM- mute or unmute audioP- pause the game
First of all, the code is a mess, this is a gamejam project written in 8 days using only One weekend and the evenings of six normal work days. The closer the deadline, the dirtier the hacks. But that was to be expected.
Lost Colonies was developed on macOS and tested as native application and compiled via emscripten on a few browsers. I see no reason it would not work on as native game on Windows and Linux too, but I didn't test during the gamejam crunch time.
Lost Colonies uses CMake as a build solution. To build it, checkout or download the source.
Open a terminal, enter the directory where the code was extracted and run:
cmake -S . -B build
to configure the project, and
cmake --build build
to compile it.
cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<path-to-emsdk>/emsdk/upstream/emscripten/cmake/Modules/Platform/Emscripten.cmake
cmake --build build
- raylib - the fun game programming library that inspired me to write this.
- rFXGen - A sound effects generation tool, modified a bit for this event
- raygui - A raylib companion library for ui widgets, used in generator tooling
- dm_property_list.h - A helper header from the
rayguiexamples, modified for some visual changes and issues compiling in under C++
From the start on I decided to try and generate my assets procedurally, I found Raylib last year and wanted to do something with it, and I liked the rFXGen tool that is a descendant of sfxr.
The sprites (aliens, the aliens bom, the players ship and the colony ship) are all generated by an algorithm derived from the works of Zelimir Fedoran and David Bollinger extended and modified to allow varying dimensions and produce more colorful pixel graphic style alien sprites.
The hex codes above those sprites are the seed values for the generator to reproduce the alien underneath.
The base of pseudo random numbers is an implementation of xoroshiro128++ seeded via splitmix64 based on public domain code from Sebastiano Vigna (vigna@acm.org) and David Blackman.
I sure need to catch up a bunch of hours of sleep and some days, maybe weeks distance to continue to work on this, but the game is missing several features and details I wanted to add and I plan to take my time to clean up the code, refactoring the cluttered game logic, write tests and hope to make it an actual helpful project, not only as a game.
