/HE2

HE Training Grounds 2, a simple game inspired by MS-DOS Gorillas

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Holy Empire Training Grounds 2

Overview

This game is a simple game inspired by "Gorillas" distributed with MS-DOS. It is also the simplest playable testcase for the Starlia engine.

The first game of the series (HE Training Grounds) was written in Visual Basic 6, in Windows forms. I decided to recreate my game using openGL, as it seemed a good starting point to actually learn openGL.

This game is licenced under GNU General Public Licence version 3 or later.

Build and Usage

Unfortunately I either have to do some digging to find the correct changeset of (openGL 1) Starlia, or should port this to the latest version of (openGL 2+) Starlia (which does not support many things, e.g. sounds). Both solutions need significant amount of work :)

Changelog

  • 0.1 : 1.00-alpha1 codename Turtle

initial version, very simple collision detection, no explosions, only way to win is to hit the enemy directly.

  • 0.2 : 1.00-alpha2 codename Firebug

added an explosion effect using a simple particle engine.

  • 0.3 : 1.00-alpha3 codename Tzitziki

added an explosion sound using openAL.

  • 0.4 : 1.00-alpha4 codename Cross

    1. deleted openAL code as it was not clean (and also failed on Windows)
    2. cross-compiled for Windows

  • 0.41 : 1.00-alpha4-1

    1. changed the particle engine a bit

  • 0.45 : 1.00-alpha5 codename Re-F*ck-Tor

    1. performed major refactoring on the game engine and classes
    2. fitted a new display engine to all the animations
    3. fitted a new particle engine
    4. added rain

  • 0.5 : 1.00-beta1 codename You can reach the stars:

    1. 1st public release! (To friends of course :) )
    2. HE2 has been fully ported to Starlia, no overrides. This means that Starlia
    3. must be installed before compiling.
    4. HE2 now uses the widget scheme of Starlia, which is a bit underwhelming.
    5. Since Starlia is for now toy game engine (not even alpha yet), and since many
    6. API/ABI breaks are bound to happen, see HE2 as the best benchmark for Starlia,
    7. and not something that is going to be the way it is now :)
    8. added main menu
    9. added labels, rendering command line prints useless
    10. added in-game menu
    11. now cannon fires at the point clicked, not at the last pointed position
    12. various bugfixes and polishes