This is a simple 2D space shooter game demo created by pure C and SDL(Simple DirectMedia Layer) with Visual Studio.
You can check the video, screenshots/GIFs and more information about this demo from my personal portfolio website.
The game will be launched with a 1280 x 720 window and a starfield background. Then the titlescreen scene will be displayed. Additionally, current displayed scene will be switched between titlescreen scene and highscore scene. Player can press the fire(X) key to enter the main game scene.
Inside the main game scene, a spaceship sprite which indicates the player will also be shown. The spaceship can moved by using 4 arrow keys: Up, down, left, and right. The spaceship can also fire bullets by holding down the fire(X) key.
Enemy red spaceships will spawn from the right and then move to the left. Enemies can be destroyed by player's bullets. Besides, enemies can also fire back thus player should try to avoid their bullets. When enemies are destroyed, they will release point pods and player can collect them to gain score points.
Furthermore, the highscore table scene is shown after player's death. If the player has earned a new highscore, he/she will be prompted to enter his/her name. Then the highscore table scene is displayed and the game can be played again. Game window can be closed by clicking on the window's close button.
- Create multiple custom linked lists to update each spaceship, bullet, explosion, debris and point pod
- Customize explosion effect made by ship debris
- Apply basic AI on enemies to always aim at the player when firing bullets
- Enable players to fire bullets to destroy enemies and collide with released point pods to gain scores
- Implement highscore table which can be saved and loaded as a txt file
- Add switch scene feature between titlescreen and highscore table
- Use SDL_image to render sprites, utilize SDL_mixer to play sound effects and music
I Use C language, SDL(Simple DirectMedia Layer) , SDL_mixer, SDL_image and Visual Studio under Windows 10 environment for this project.
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Download this repo, open(or unzip and open) the SDL2_simple_2D_shooter folder with Visual Studio.
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Set up SDL according to lazyfoo's guide.
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Set up SDL_mixer according to lazyfoo's guide
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Set up SDL_image according to lazyfoo's guide
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Build and run the project to play the game.
Detailed documentation can be viewed via this link.
The whole project contains four main folders, Exhibitions folder, Resources folder, include folder and src folder.
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Exhibitions folder contains all screenshots and GIFs needed for exhibition.
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src folder contains altogether 11 source files:
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include folder contains altogether 13 header files:
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Resources folder contains 1 font(.ttf) file, 1 highscore data file(.txt), 9 game objects' image files(.png), 1 music file(.ogg) and 5 sound files(.ogg).
1. background : handle all background related behaviors.
2. defs : include all defined variables here.
3. draw : contain all draw(render) related features.
4. highscores : process all features related to highscores.
5. init.h : handle the initialization and cleanup of the game.
6. input.h : process all user's input.
7. main.h : be responsible for the entrance and the main game loop.
8. sound.h : handle all sound behaviors inside the game.
9. stage.h : run the actual game logic.
10. structs.h : contain all custom structs used for the game.
11. text.h : hold all features about in-game text.
12. title.h : responsible for all behaviours of titlescreen scene.
13. util.h : store several utility functions to help create the game (such as math calculation and collision detection).