Elemental Game and Custom-built Game Engine

Welcome to Elemental Game, a game and custom-built game engine designed for creating simple, top-down strategy games. This README provides an overview of the project, its design principles, goals, and instructions for building and testing.

Getting Started

Build Tools

• CMake (version 3.21 or higher)
• C++17-compatible compiler

Project Structure

• src/: Contains the engine logic, defines a libray target
• apps/: Contains the game source, as well as source for resource editors, all consumers of the engine target
• test/: Contains unit tests

Library Dependencies

• Catch2 v3: Test framework for C++ (can be fetched using FetchContent).
• FakeIt: Mocking framework for C++ (fetched using FetchContent).
• SDL2: A cross-platform development library providing low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, and display functions.
• SDL2_Image: An extension library for SDL2, offering support for loading various image file formats.
• SDL2_Gfx: A graphics primitive extension library for SDL2, providing additional functionality for efficient graphics rendering.

Building the Project

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone <URL>
   

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd  elemental-game
   

3. Configure your build system:

   cmake -B debug -G Unix Makefiles
   # or
   cmake -B debug -G Ninja   # this is faster and more modern
   

4. Invoke your build system

   cmake --build debug
   

Running Unit Tests

1. After building the project, you can run the unit tests:

   cmake --build --target ctest
   

This will execute the Catch2 test suite.

License

This project is licensed under the MPL 2.0 License.

Catch2, which is used for unit-testing is © Catch2 authors, and is licensed under the Boost Software License v1.0 FakeIt, is also used for unit-testing and is © Eran Pe'er and is licensed under the MIT License