Submission for Search For A Star 2024 Game Programming Entry
This is the starting project for the Search For A Star competition for 2024. You should base your project on the existing code files, you should not start again from scratch, otherwise marks will be lost. This is to demonstrate you are able to read and understand code written by other programmers. This project was written using Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 using the Windows 10 SDK and the DirectX Tool Kit Desktop 2019 package.
- Install Visual Studio (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) the Community edition is free for students, opensource contributors and individuals
- Ensure that "Game development with C++" is ticked when installing
- Ensure that under this the option for installing the "Windows 10 SDK (10.0.20348.0)" is ticked
- Setup screengrabs can be found in /Star/Documentation/
- Packages should download and install automatically, if they do not:
- Visual Studio should be set to automatically download missing packages (default setting)
- In Tools > Options > NuGet Package Manager > General please check that both are ticked:
- Allow NuGet to download missing packages
- Automatically check for missing packages during build in Visual Studio
- In Tools > Options > NuGet Package Manager > General please check that both are ticked:
- Visual Studio should be set to automatically download missing packages (default setting)
- Ensure that "Game development with C++" is ticked when installing
- Grads In Games Support, either through our Discord or via email. Details for each are in your project brief document.