Foster

Description

Foster is a 2D online multiplayer plateformer where you shoot your enemies to win the battle. This project is still under development. Author: Hugo Caroubalos.

Game instructions

When the game begins, type 1 for launching a server or 2 to launch the client. Then choose a UDP port.

Controls:

• Jump : UP
• Left : LEFT
• Right : RIGHT
• Chat message : ENTER
• Scoreboard / Connected players : TAB

Download the game

You can directly download the game for windows on the Github page of the project : https://github.com/hugoc7/foster-cpp/releases/tag/Foster-0.0.1-win64

Development

Foster is written in C++ and uses the SDL library. The game engine is created from scratch, reinventing the wheel is a way to learn concepts. The big parts of this projects are :

• Collisions and physics system
• Entity Component System
• Messaging Service (Chat) using TCP protocol
• Networked entities using UDP protocol

The game logic is not implemented yet.

Dependancies

Foster uses the following libraries:

• SDL : https://www.libsdl.org/
• SDL_net : https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/
• SDL_ttf : https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/
• SDL_FontCache : https://github.com/grimfang4/SDL_FontCache
• ReaderWriterQueue : https://github.com/cameron314/readerwriterqueue
• Struct: https://github.com/svperbeast/struct
• CRCpp: https://github.com/d-bahr/CRCpp

Build and Debug

Foster uses Xmake for building, project generation and library management. You can download Xmake to easily build the game, although I haven't tested my script on many plateforms.

Build the game

xmake
xmake install

If everything goes fine you will get a bin folder with Foster inside. To run the game you will also need an assets folder containing the following files (images, fonts and map file) :

assets  
└───img
│   │   player.bmp
│   │   plateform.bmp
└───maps
│   │   map.txt
└───fonts
    │   Sansation_Regular.ttf

You can download the assets on the github page of the project, under Releases. Then unzip the archive and put the assets folder in the same folder than the Foster executable.

Generate a VisualStudio project

xmake project -k vsxmake -m "debug,release"

If you use a different IDE, see Xmake documentation