https://github.com/JoaoBaptMG/gba-modern

An attempt to create a Game Boy Advance game using Modern C++
https://github.com/JoaoBaptMG/gba-modern

game game-engine-2d gba modern-cpp

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An attempt to create a Game Boy Advance game using Modern C++

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/JoaoBaptMG/gba-modern
• Owner: JoaoBaptMG
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-08-10T03:52:52.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-06-26T14:42:05.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T21:18:08.622Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: game, game-engine-2d, gba, modern-cpp
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 12.4 MB
• Stars: 73
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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README

        
**WARNING: this is not a library or in a state to be reused right now. This is a toy project that I played with for some years, and most of the code is not in a reusable state. The project is also in a stale state, and will probably be archived.**

gba-modern

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The objective of this project is to aim to create a Game Boy Advance game using C++17, while employing generators to the assets of the game.

Building

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**Warning:** currently the project does not work in a Windows environment! Use WSL to build it on Windows.

**Warning:** this repository uses submodules, be sure to initialize them properly by cloning this repo using the `--recursive` or then using the command `git submodule update --init` after cloning it!

This project consists in a toolkit written in C++17 to generate assembly files for the resources (tilesets, maps and sprites as of writing), and it also includes the source files of the game, written in C++17. The included *Makefile* makes sure all the files are properly built. It requires a `g++` which supports C++17 (possibly every Linux distribution has one). **It also requires the `freetype` library**, and also the `unzip` package, since it might not be installed by default in some distributions! Once all of those are done, you can properly `make` the project, and the ROM will be available in the path _bin/game.gba_.

Screenshots and Videos

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[Working video](videos/video.mp4) | [Bitmask test video](videos/bitmask.mp4)

![Image 1](screenshots/game-0.png)

![Image 2](screenshots/game-1.png)

![Image 3](screenshots/game-2.png)

![Image 4](screenshots/game-3.png)

Contributing

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All contribution is welcome. If you have interesting things to add, please submit a pull request!

Credits

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All files in this repository with exception of specific libraries and the fonts located in the _fonts_ foder are Copyright (c) 2019 João Baptista de Paula e Silva and are under the MIT license.

Niels Lohmann's "JSON for Modern C++" library can be found [here](https://github.com/nlohmann/json) and is also under the MIT license.

The LodePNG files belong to Lode Vandevenne and can be found [here](https://lodev.org/lodepng/) also under the zlib license.

The font _monogram.ttf_ belongs to Vinícius Menézio can be found [here](https://datagoblin.itch.io/monogram) under the CC0.

The font _Sweet16.ttf_ belongs to Martin Sedlák and can be found [here](https://github.com/kmar/Sweet16Font) under the Boost Software License.

The library GCE-Math used by generating LUTs belongs to Keith O'Hara and can be found [here](https://github.com/kthohr/gcem) under the Apache-2 License.

The font _Spleen_, used on the "Game Pak removed" screen, belongs to Frederic Cambus and can be found [here](https://github.com/fcambus/spleen) under the BSD-2 license.

Finally, the graphics for the "Game Pak removed" screen belong to Damian Yerrick (aka [pinobatch](https://github.com/pinobatch)) and are licensed under the CC0.