Hackles is a web comic strip series created by Drake Emko & Jen Brodzik, that features animals working in a big tech company called BitCo. The strip makes fun about situations that happen in the office and in the geek world. It was published online from March 31, 2001 to January 15, 2004. Below, you can read more about:
Unfortunately, hackles.org is no longer online, but you can still access the website through the Wayback Machine.
This project aims to bring the Hackles comic strip to new audiences, while being a side-project I like working on to improve my programming skills. I used to read this comic in Brazilian Portuguese, translated by Marcelo Toscani Brandão, back in 2011, at the defunct tirinhas.com website. The icons used in the navigation buttons were retrieved from tirinhas.com as a tribute to the website that introduced me to this comic strip.
All the strips in this repository were retrieved from the archived hackles.org website.
The application presented here it's written in C and uses the Raylib library to do all the graphical stuff. Raylib is a simple and ease-to-use library that is used to make videogames.
First, install the required dependencies:
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openSUSE Tumbleweed
zypper install make gcc libX11-devel Mesa-libGL-devel
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Debian-based distros
apt install --no-install-recommends make libgl1-mesa-dev gcc libc6-dev
Clone the repository and compile the project:
git clone https://github.com/jpmsb/hackles
cd hackles
makeJust run the executable:
./hackles
This is a working in progress project. Here are some things that is planned to be done in the future:
- About character screen
- Proper hyperlink support
- Multiple language switch support
- Dark mode
- Support for high resolution strips and navigation buttons