README.md

open_ultima

An open source remake of Ultima 1: First Age of Darkness in very, very, very early stages of development.

This project is the result of my personal goal to better learn SDL and discover newer C++ features, so please keep that in mind when looking at the ugly code!

For compiling use CMake.

Requires (of course) the original game files, you can get them from GOG.com!

Dependencies:

• SDL 2.0.12
• SDL TTF 2.0.15
• SDL Image 2.0.5
• SDL Gfx
• taoJSON (https://github.com/taocpp/json)

Features implemented:

• Basic overworld.
• Super basic dungeon crawling.
• Basic dungeon combat.
• Town and Castle (empty for now).

Compiling

1. Install Microsoft's Vcpkg for a much simpler way of fetching dependencies (Oh Maven how I miss thee), follow the documentation in git to properly initialize it.

2. Install the dependencies using your target architecture.

   For example, fetching them on Windows x64:

   .\vcpck.exe install sdl2:windows-x64

   .\vcpck.exe install sdl2-ttf:windows-x64

   ...

   .\vcpck.exe install taoJSON:windows-x64

3. Compile using CMake (I strongly suggest using either Jetbrains's CLion, or VC++)

4. Before executing, make sure you have a valid config.json file next to the executable.