a collection of utlitity functions designed to facilitate creating 2D games with SDL2 This project is specifically intended to function as an educational tool for my students taking 2D Game Programming.
Currently the project is in a WIP state, however it is functional with sample projects showcasing rudimentary scrolling shooters, platformers, and adventure games.
The master branch is kept deliberately minimal to allow students to build out systems as they are learning. Other branches have more complete system: Collisions, menus, input abstraction.
Before you can build the example code we are providing for you, you will need to obtain the libraries required by the source code
- SDL2
- SDL2_image
- SDL2_mixer
- SDL2_ttf There are additional sub modules that are needed for this project to work as well, but they can be pulled right from within the project. Performable from the following steps from the root of the cloned git repository within a terminal.
Make sure you fetch submodules: git submodule update --init --recursive
Go into each submodule's src directory and type:
make
make static
Once each submodule has been made you can go into the base project src folder anre simply type:
make
You should now have a gf2d binary within the root of your git repository. Executing this will start your game.