YABG (Yet Another Block Game)

A fun project to give an excuse to slightly neglect my other projects. I originally wrote it in Go with Ebitengine, but I wanted to learn something new, so Zig and Raylib it is. I don't have any plans to post the original Go code, but I'd be willing if it were requested for some reason. It was written HORRIBLY, and the Zig version already has some of the harder parts already ported over, so I see little reason.

The idea is as follows: a top-down, Minecraft-esque building and exploration game with either partial or fully turn-based combat, 2-layer world interaction (only "floor" and "wall" type tiles), exploration both below and above the base layer, such as hell and floating islands, computer-based automation (think Minecraft's Computercraft mod), simple RPG-like progression and plenty of mini boss fights. I like the idea of making it a pretty hard game, and might take some inspiration from Terrafirmacraft's semi-realistic crafting, such as knapping and casting. To make it all a bit more unique, I decided to use dozenal (aka duodecimal or base 12) numbering. In the future I'll add an option to switch to decimal or hex, but currently it doesn't even have a basic settings menu

If the game actually turns out to be half decent, I'll probably end up charging a small fee ($5-$10?) on stores such as Steam, MS Store, phone app stores, etc. The code will ALWAYS be completely open source, however, and I'll have portable downloads for Linux and Windows (and macOS if I can get the means to test it) here free to use.

Play instructions:

There are currently releases for Linux and Windows (x86_64) that can simply be downloaded and ran. As of now, the game has no real content, but it will be added once I consider the engine good-enough. A couple of enviornment variables can be set for testing purposes:

SCALE_FACTOR  # Must be set to an integer, this will change the scaling of the
              # game (default=6)

PLAYER_SPEED  # Changes the speed of the player per tick. Each game tick is
              # 1/30th of a second, so if you want to move one pixel per tick,
			  # the speed would be set to 2 (default)

WINDOW_WIDTH  # Must be set to an integer, sets the window width in pixels
WINDOW_HEIGHT # Same as WINDOW_WIDTH but for height

DEBUG_MODE    # Start the game in debug mode (F3 menu)

PC controls: WASD: Move Left click: Break block Right click: Place stone

Gamepad controls: Left stick: Move TODO: break, place blocks

In the future I will likely make both placing and breaking use the same button and depend on the item currently highlighted.

Dependencies:

# Regardless of distro, the latest version of Zig is required. This should be
# obtained through the AUR, Snap or the official tarball. Zig is still in
# heavy development and even slightly older versions that might be found in a
# standard repository likely won't be able to build YABG

# Ubuntu/Debian:
libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev libgl-dev

# Alpine:
libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev mesa-gl mesa-dev libc-dev pipewire

Building instructions:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/mgord9518/yabg
cd yabg

zig build # Or `zig build run`

Short-term goals:

Future goals: