AstroAttack

AstroAttack is a space themed platform and puzzle game in 2D. The player comes from a small planet that was attacked by an evil character and the player's mission is to explore the universe to recover all the stolen resources and captured inhabitants. The game features moveable objects, different forms of gravitation, free-form shapes and interesting graphics. The game is in a very early development stage.

• Game design, programming and most assets by Christian Zommerfelds
• Copyright © 2014
• If you have any comments, feel free to send me a message with the address aero_super [at] yahoo [dot] com or use the GitHub issue tracker.

Dependencies

To play the game, you will have to install the dependencies manually and build from source. Please send any feedback if you experience problems compiling and running AstroAttack. I'll be glad to help and improve the process. This is the list of requirements:

• OpenGL (should be alread installed)
• SDL 1.2
• SDL-mixer
• DevIL
• Box2D 2.3
• Boost
• wxWidgets (for the editor)
• Google Test (optional, for unit tests, use --disable-test in the ./configure command to disable)

How to build on a Debian based system

Install the requirements using the following command:

sudo apt-get install autoconf g++ make libsdl1.2-dev libftgl-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libdevil-dev libboost-dev libgtest-dev wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev libbox2d-dev

Then compile and run AstroAttack:

./bootstrap
./configure
make
./AstroAttack

AstroAttack needs Box2D 2.3. As of this writing libbox2d in Debian stable was only 2.0. If you use Debian testing or Ubuntu you can skip this part.

• Install CMake: sudo apt-get install cmake
• Download Box2D with SVN: svn checkout http://box2d.googlecode.com/svn/tags/v2.3.1
• Build the Box2D package (see Building.txt) with cmake -DBOX2D_INSTALL=ON -DBOX2D_BUILD_SHARED=ON -DBOX2D_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF . then make
• Install the Box2D library with sudo make install

How to build on Mac OS X with Homebrew

I was able to build AstroAttack on a Mac with the following commands:

brew install automake wxwidgets sdl sdl_mixer ftgl box2d gcc devil boost
./bootstrap
./configure --disable-test CPPFLAGS="`pkg-config --cflags freetype2` `sdl-config --cflags`" LDFLAGS="`sdl-config --libs`"
make
./AstroAttack

Any suggestions for improvement are welcome.

How to build on Windows with Visual Studio

Open the Visual Studio solution inside the directory vs2010. After adding all the library dependencies to Visual Studio, you should be able to build and run normally.

Troubleshooting

1. Compilation error ftheader.h not found

If you get the message /usr/include/ft2build.h:56:38: error: freetype/config/ftheader.h: No such file or directory, it means that the FTGL library can't find the Freetype library.

Try to add CPPFLAGS="`pkg-config --cflags freetype2`" to the configure command. (i.e.: ./configure CPPFLAGS="`pkg-config --cflags freetype2`") Alternatively you can add a link to the library:

sudo ln -s /usr/include/freetype2/freetype /usr/include/freetype

My Cheatsheet

../configure CXX="colorgcc -lstdc++"
../configure CXXFLAGS="-Wall -g" CPPFLAGS="`pkg-config --cflags freetype2`"