tactics

A 2D tactics game written in Go, using a custom engine on the SDL2 library.

Unfinished; current state includes rendering of the isometric grid but no actors or game logic/scenes.

Requirements

• Mingw-w64 and SDL2: https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2#requirements

Documentation

See godoc.org/github.com/willroberts/tactics

• engine: sdl2-based game engine
• engine/menu: menu logic and rendering
• engine/input: keyboard and mouse handling
• game/scenes: scenes for the game
• game/unit: code for representing units (players, NPCs, objects)
• grid: standalone code for representing game boards
• tmx: standalone code for interacting with tiled files

To Do

Core Features

• Allow camera movement in both X and Y directions simultaneously.
• Clean up input package, add tests
• Allow resolution adjustment in Settings menu
• Add units
• Add sprite textures
• Add assets from http://flarerpg.org
• Add movement logic
• Add turn-based combat logic
• Add music and sound effects

Design and Organization

• Read https://godoc.org/github.com/veandco/go-sdl2/sdl
• Remove all SDL-specific code from grid package (?)
  • OR: move grid to engine/grid
  • Textures stored in cells
  • Colors stored in cells
  • Checkerboard & CheckerColor funcs for color operations
• Move tmx to engine/tmx
• Evaluate usage of int32 (engine)

Packaging and Polish

• 100% test coverage
• Comment audit