A 2d game engine in under 1000 lines of C

Basque

Basque is a top down 2d game engine.

Global keyboard shortcuts:

↑ : Move player North

→ : Move player East

↓ : Move player South

← : Move player West

q : Quit

e : Toggle edit mode

Edit mode shortcuts:

l : Toggle map library

Mouse button 1 (left click): Place tile

Mouse button 2 (right click): Select tile

Why do this?

Why not just use Godot/Unity/et cetera? Basque has a very different priority list than these engines. It is not a generic engine. There isn't much here, but it is a good starting point if you are looking to roll your own engine, here is what it does do:

• Map editing (with an easy to understand plain text format).
• Spritesheet animation.
• Background music.
• Collision detection.
• Some frame rate limiting (this should be improved).

At this point the engine will start becoming more specific to the game I am building, which is why I see this as the best time to open source it. Since it could be useful to others, either as a starting point, or just as a guide of how to do some things with SDL2. Note that all of the code is not necessarily the best solution to these problems, but it is a solution.

Basque currently requires:

• SDL2
• SDL2_image
• SDL2_mixer
• SDL2_ttf

Getting SDL2 installed:

Linux:

apt:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev

dnf:

sudo dnf install SDL2-devel SDL2_image-devel SDL2_mixer-devel SDL2_ttf-devel

Or whatever the equivalent package is for your distro.

Mac:

brew install sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_mixer sdl2_ttf

Windows:

1. Download the latest VC development files from: https://libsdl.org

2. Place the entire contents of include and lib under C:\INCLUDE\SDL2 .

3. Copy all DLLs under lib to C:\Windows\System32 and C:\Windows\SysWOW64 .

4. Repeat for SDL2_image , SDL2_mixer , and SDL2_ttf .

5. Profit.