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ASCIIVN: An ASCII art visual novel engine written in C

With Nix

nix-build will produce the wrapper script, bin/run-asciivn

Without Nix

Dependencies

libpng

For loading of PNG files into imagebuffers.

Compiling

Use cmake to generate the Makefiles.

cmake -H. -Bbuild                                    # Make separate build directory to have a clean repository
bash -c "cd build && make VERBOSE=1 && cp ./asciivn" # Build under a bash subprocess in order to preserve pwd.

Running

./asciivn accepts the following flags:

--benchmark

Skips through all the choices; picking the first choice

--file FILE

Changes all foreground images to the provided FILE

NB: The binaries and the images should be in the same location. This is an architectural mishap and should be fixed once getopt is implemented or ported to Rust.