tatrabbit / pacman

learning sdl. cloning a game i dislike.

stupid pac-man clone.

what.

I'm learning to work with SDL, with an emphasis on scalability. I want to scale it up to my own engine, a sidescroller I've always wanted.

To do.

This project is only partially complete.

Mandatory.

• Level progression.
• Logic for remaining 3 ghosts
• Menu

Very important.

• Warping through the escape route

Important.

• Score
• Sound

Nice.

• High score saving

why.

I want to make/finish Nipio's Adventure, a small piece of large bloatware that skyrocketed in scope creep when I was a young adult. Using Godot would come closest to how it originally felt like to play, but if I don't use C++, it won't really fulfill its artistic purpose. I need to close that chapter of my life and complete what I started then. It was originally written in Allegro 4 with TileStudio for map editing, and blew up into an egregious playground of project mismanagement. By the time I decided to stop, it was capable of general-purpose game dev with live editing via Lua (while the game was running, no less), and had HTML rendering capabilities... and worse.

how.

Linux and MacOS only. Windows isn't supported because my gaming rig is annoying to go program at.

VS Code folder settings are included.

get proprietery sprites.

Arcade - Pac-Man - All AssetsPalettes.png: https://www.spriters-resource.com/arcade/pacman/sheet/159361/

Delete the background of all sprites. Just select "black" with a non-contiguous wand, no anti-alising, delete it/make transparent, save as atlas.png. You can use your favorite image tool, but everyone will judge you if you use Gimp. We will judge you harshly.

run make.

Assuming you have the sprite sheet ready, just run make. You'll need sdl2, and the image addon. I intend to do without the image addon, and instead load images in a custom format, with a custom binary format for the image and palette system I so like.

board_data.h

This is built from a csv file using board_data.py. If python is available, make will handle this as part of the build process. As for source of the CSV itself, it's Tiled Map Editor. I'll add a project for editing that later. I don't want to push any .png stuff to the repository for file size reasons, so please wait on that until I know it's pretty much dusted off.

dedicating this garbage to two pupils.

• A very longime friend I met on some furry site, whose recent desire to learn Allegro 5 got me thinking about once again continuing that Nipio game he once did music for, long ago.
• A fairly recent friend I met on a YTP server, whose interest in linux and C programming reminds me of my own when I was their age.

these two know who they are.