Minigin is a very small project using SDL2 and glm for 2D c++ game projects. It is in no way a game engine, only a barebone start project where everything sdl related has been set up. It contains glm for vector math, to aleviate the need to write custom vector and matrix classes.
Minigin can/may be used as a start project for the exam assignment in the course 'Programming 4' at DAE. In that assignment students need to recreate a popular 80's arcade game with a game engine they need to program themselves. During the course we discuss several game programming patterns, using the book 'Game Programming Patterns' by Robert Nystrom as reading material.
Minigin is, despite perhaps the suggestion in its name, not a game engine. It is just a very simple sdl2 ready project with some of the scaffolding in place to get started. None of the patterns discussed in the course are used yet (except singleton which use we challenge during the course). It is up to the students to implement their own vision for their engine, apply patterns as they see fit, create their game as efficient as possible.
Get the source from this project, or since students need to have their work on github too, they can use this repository as a template.
- Install CMake
- Install CMake and CMake Tools extensions in Visual Code
- Open the root folder in Visual Code, a "build" folder will be made by Code and the project can now be build.
- Install CMake
- Install Emscripten
- Install Ninja
- Install python
In a terminal, navigate to the root folder. Run this:
mkdir build_web
cd build_web
emcmake cmake ..
emmake ninja
To be able to see the webpage you can simply start a python webserver in the build_web folder
python -m http.server
Then simply browse to http://localhost:8000 and you're good to go.
For installing all of the above I recommend using Chocolatey. You can then simply run the following to install what is needed:
choco install -y cmake
choco install -y emscripten
choco install -y ninja
choco install -y python