GLFighters-SDL

GLFighters was originally written by David Rosen for Classic Mac OS. This repo contains a port of the game to SDL, which can be built for both Linux and WebAssembly.

You can play it online at https://devnonsense.com/GLFighters-SDL/. The site is built from this repository.

Dependencies

Linux

For building on Linux, you will need:

• GCC C++ compiler
• SDL2 and SDL_Mixer
• OpenGL

On Fedora, you can install these with:

dnf install gcc-c++ SDL2-devel SDL2_mixer-devel mesa-libGL-devel

WASM

To build for WebAssembly (WASM), you need emscripten.

Follow the instructions at emscripten.org to install emmake and em++.

Building and running

Build both Linux and WASM using make from the root of the repository:

make

To run the Linux binary:

$(cd ./port; ./glfighters)

To run in a browser:

make server

Changes from the original

There are a few changes from the original game to translate the experience to the web and make it more accessible to modern gamers:

• The default map, player skins, and starting position are chosen so they stand out against the background and are easier to see.
• The default weapon for player 1 is the lightsaber, because the animation/sounds are awesome and because it shows that GLFighters has multiple types of weapons.
• There is help text printed showing the most important keys (movement, attack, and toggling the AI) so casual players can get started. There is also help text after a player dies explaining how to restart.
• The ability to save and open map files is not yet implemented.

The original used the numpad for player 2 controls and map editor commands, but none of my keyboards have a numpad, so I haven't tested that these work correctly.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome for bugfixes and porting to other platforms. Modifications or extensions to the game itself will not be accepted, but you're welcome to make whatever changes you want on a fork.