README.md

Tales of Player One.

A collection of minigames meant to test and improve my game engine.

Overview

This is just a small project where I try to make various games in the form of minigames to see common features or problems that arises that I could abstract in the form of features for my Game Engine. I am starting this very small right now as I believe that its best to not start hammering features as it would cause unnecessary bloat.

Currently, the Game Engine feels more like a library that wraps SFML. Hopefully as more features gets built on top, it will feel more like an actual engine with GUI capabilities.

Installation

This project uses CMake, as such upon cloning the project run the following command from the project directory to launch the game.

  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake ..
  ./bin/main

Creating a new scene / minigame

I try to organize my scenes in the Scenes directory and create folders that contains assets for said scenes. In order to create a new scene, simply create a new class which inherits the State class.

#include "Engine/GameEngine.hpp"

class SceneName : public State {
    public:
    SceneName(GameDataRef data);
    ~SceneName();
    void Init() override;
    void HandleInput() override;
    void Update(float dt) override;
    void Draw(float dt) override;
    void Pause() override;
    void Resume() override;
}

To go to a new scene, you would have to access the StateManager and run the function

this->data->stateMachine.AddState(StateRef(new SceneName(this->data)))

Screenshots

Acknowledgements

The project and engine relies on SFML a lot to draw windows and handle the game loop. THEY ARE AMAZING.

• SFML
• Sprites & UI Elements

Some resources I found helpful:

• Making Tic-Tac-Toe with SFML (I liked the simplicity of his Engine)