A first-person arena shooter project based on Tesseract which focuses on both old school and casual gameplay.
We are a team of volunteers that have been collaborating since 2019 and are brought together by our shared enthusiasm and creativity. In an effort to enhance our skills and learn new things, we are working to bring the project's shared goal to life.
Although Valhalla is inspired by Cube 2: Sauerbraten and numerous other ancient video games, it does not intend to blindly follow the path of other similar projects and attempt to create yet another clone of well-known old-school games, but rather it seeks to innovate the genre by proposing a simple but enjoyable shooter, experimenting with fresh concepts and combining old-school and modern elements to create something distinctive, leading to a modern interpretation of the classic arena gameplay.
We strive to offer the majority of players a satisfying gaming experience by making sure Valhalla is always free and open source, collaborating with the community, focusing on the creation of a nice blend of classic and casual gameplay and trying to enhance the built-in map editor based on the Cube Engine 2.
Anyone can contribute features, assets and ideas to the project to help it develop.
Some of the goals we have in mind are:
- Accessibility: Add tutorials and other important features to help new players get into the game.
- Cross-Platform Support: Support Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- Depth: Create simple yet convincing lore to give the game a sense of purpose and its universe a story with depth.
- Game Engine: Tweak, maintain, and update the engine together with the community.
- Immersion: Bring audio, effects, and gunplay closer to modern standards.
- Iterate on the Arena Shooter Formula: Experiment with new ideas and enhance the arena shooter experience.
- Map Editor Improvements: Make most features of the map editor accessible through a simple and clear user interface.
- Simplicity: Build gameplay that is interesting and varied while keeping the game itself simple, polished, and fun.
- UI/HUD Improvements and Customization: Make the UI clear and accessible while allowing easy customization.
- Unique Aesthetics: Maintain an art direction that helps create something distinct and original.
- Vibrant Atmosphere: Avoid hyper-realistic and gloomy design language, build levels that feel open and bright.
Valhalla's source code and related configuration files and scripts are licensed under the permissive zlib license.
The included ENet network library which the project uses is covered by an MIT-style license, which is however compatible with the above license for all practical purposes.
The game assets are excluded from the licenses mentioned above as these may be subject to individual copyright and have specific distribution restrictions.
Without invaluable contributions, this project would not have reached this stage.
To view a list of people who have contributed to this specific repository, contributors.md file.
If you would like to know how to make significant contributions to the project, please take a moment to read our contribution guidelines.
Below, we have provided an overview of the recommended or available methods for building the source code.
The binaries will be available in bin/bin64/ and bin/bin32/. They can be launched by using the valhalla.bat batch script located in the root directory of the repository.
In order to build the project on Code::Blocks, you can use TDM-GCC.
Make sure Code::Blocks is using the chosen compiler by checking the directory used at Settings -> Compiler -> Toolchain executables -> Compiler's installation directory in Code::Blocks.
Once the compiler is configured, open the valhalla.cbp project located in source/vcpp/ and click on Build -> Build.
In order to build the project on Visual Studio, you will require one of the latest versions of Visual Studio and its C/C++ extension pack.
Open the valhalla.sln solution or the valhalla.vcxproj project located in source/vcpp/ and click on Build -> Build valhalla.
In order to build the source code by using the Makefile included in the source directory, you need to ensure you have the SDL2, SDL2-image, SDL2-mixer and OpenGL development libraries installed.
After configuring the required libraries, change the current directory into the root directory of the repository in your terminal and execute the make install command:
cd ./source
make install
This will also install the binaries and make them accessible in the bin/bin_unix/ directory, which can be executed using the valhalla_unix shell script located in the root directory of the repository.
You can use the Makefile located in the source/ directory to build the source code, similarly to the steps described in the Linux section.
To launch the application, you can run the shell script valhalla.sh found in bin/valhalla.app/Contents/MacOS/.
Alternatively, you can use Code::Blocks to load and build the project by opening the source/vcpp/valhalla.cbp file and following similar steps to those described in the Windows section.