Ilya246 / orbitfight

A game in C++ written with SFML, currently dead; planned to be remade ground-up later

orbitfight

A very in-development game where you're a spaceship shooting other spaceships in a very large solar system simulated as a N-body gravity simulation, other mechanics might possibly be added later

Development progress is posted in the matrix server: https://matrix.to/#/#orbitfight:matrix.org

This game is more of a learning project (and is also my (Ilya246) first "real" C++ program) than a real game and is not really intended to be particularly interesting, another side effect of which is that the code may be rather cursed in places

On screenshot: myself orbiting a moon in a planetary system after having shot a projectile, trajectories selected to be drawn relative to the main planet

Controls

• W - forwards
• A - rotate left
• S - backwards
• D - rotate right
• LShift - charge up hyperboost (NOT a fuel bar)
• LCtrl - boost | afterburn during hyperboost
• Spacebar - fire
• T - target body closest to cursor
• Tab - set/change/unset reference body to predict trajectories against

Hosting

orbitfight.exe --headless

Config

Config documentation should generate upon starting the executable if a config file is not detected. If you want to regenerate it, orbitfight.exe --regenerate-help

Compiling

To compile orbitfight, you have to:

• make sure src/*.cpp is accounted for
• make sure include/*.hpp is accounted for
• make sure SFML graphics, window, network and system modules are accounted for
• make sure you're using at least C++20
• if you plan on running the game in client mode, put the assets folder next to the game executable after compiling

Font

Using Hack font, not owned by us