olkeencole / lasercrabs

Launch your LASERCRAB at walls, ceilings, and enemy heads in this indie multiplayer shooter where "move" and "attack" are synonymous.

LASERCRABS

Features

• Simple multi-threaded architecture - separate threads for physics, rendering, AI, and game logic
• Entity/component system
• Linear math suite somewhat stolen from Ogre
• Content pipeline supporting .blend, .glsl, .otf, .png
• Create levels, models, animations, and ragdoll rigs in Blender
• Deferred rendering, cascaded shadow maps, edge detection, bloom, SSAO, weather effects
• Geometry-based font rendering and UI system
• Online multiplayer
• Online user profile system via sqlite
• Authentication via Steam, itch.io, or GameJolt
• Localization support
• Simple Windows crash report system
• Keyboard/mouse/gamepad support via SDL
• Automatic navmesh generation with realtime mutations via Recast
• Audio via Wwise
• Physics via Bullet
• Almost all dependencies are open source GitHub submodules
• Builds and runs on Win/Mac/Linux

Windows quickstart

1. Clone the repository and pull down the submodules. You will need Git LFS.
2. Install Visual Studio 2017.
3. Install the DirectX SDK
4. Install CMake
5. Ensure Blender 2.79b is installed and available on the path
6. Ensure Wwise 2017.1.0 build 6302 is installed and WwiseCLI is available on the path
7. Run setup-win.bat
8. Open build/lasercrabs.sln in Visual Studio
9. Set the lasercrabs project to start up by default
10. Hit F5 to run the game

Linux quickstart

1. Clone the repository and pull down the submodules. You will need Git LFS.
2. The Wwise authoring tool doesn't run on Linux. Use Wwise on another platform to build the Linux soundbanks.
3. If necessary, copy the generated Wwise_IDs.h file into src/asset
4. Copy the soundbanks into assets/audio/GeneratedSoundBanks/Linux
5. If you are on Debian/Ubuntu, run ./setup-debian-deps. Otherwise you'll need to install these dependencies yourself.
6. Run ./setup-linux
7. Run ./lasercrabs from the build folder

Mac quickstart

1. Clone the repository and pull down the submodules. You will need Git LFS.
2. Install Homebrew
3. Ensure Blender 2.79b is installed and available on the path
4. Ensure Wwise 2017.1.0 build 6302 is installed and WwiseCLI.sh is available on the path
5. Wwise might have trouble generating soundbanks the first time. You might need to delete any cache files and open the project manually in Wwise first.
6. Run ./setup-mac
7. Run ./lasercrabs from the build folder

Credits

• Evan Todd - code, design, art
• Jack Menhorn - sound design
• Logan Hayes - music
• Ian Cuslidge - level design for "Plaza"
• Bobpoblo - level design for "Crossing"

License

Everything excluding the external directory is public domain.

Wwise SDK

This repository includes a copy of the Wwise SDK. Use of the SDK is subject to the Wwise EULA. Wwise is free for educational and non-commercial purposes. Otherwise, acquire a license key from Audiokinetic.