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- Description
- Used tools and libs
- Compilation and installation
- Licensing
- Testing
- Potential further improvements
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Clone of old arcade game named Battle City / Tank 1990 based on very old group project from studies. 15 years after the original version, I've decided to heavily revamp, modernize, apply new ideas and publish it as open source. The effects can be observed in this repository.
Remark: For creation of bitmaps I've used all my graphics designing skills which are somewhat close to none ;)
| Tool | Windows | Ubuntu |
|---|---|---|
| OS version | 10 22H2 | 24.04 |
| GCC | 13.1.0 | 13.2.0 |
| CMake | 3.30.2 | 3.28.3 |
| Git | 2.46.0 | 2.43.0 |
| Allegro | 5.2.9.1 | 5.2.9.1 |
| Catch2 | 3.7.0 | 3.7.0 |
| Visual Studio Code | 1.92.0 | 1.92.0 |
Use directly CMake or any IDE supporting CMake project. CMake should:
- configure everything automatically,
- download dependencies using Git (Allegro, Catch2),
- build dependencies,
- compile Tankble and link binaries.
This is of course a happy path...
TIPS: on Linux, you might need to install libgl1-mesa-dev and libxcursor-dev to be able to use Allegro library.
Software is released under the MIT license.
The project uses the following open-source software:
| Name | License | Home | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allegro | Allegro - The giftware license | https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5 | cross-platform library for game and multimedia programming |
| Catch2 | BSL-1.0 | https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2 | testing framework for C++ |
For testing of code logic, there is a responsible Catch2 framework. As it is well integrated with CMake it should be straightforward to use. As the first step, build the project. Make sure that the tankble-test target is built. Modern IDEs supporting CMake also support running tests with monitoring of failures. But in case you would like to run it manually, go to the build\test directory, where the binary tankble-tests should be available after building. Calling it directly should produce the following output on Linux:
$ ./tankble-test
Randomness seeded to: 3114824452
===============================================================================
All tests passed (350 assertions in 29 test cases)
As an alternative, CTest can be used to run tests:
$ ctest
Test project <path>/tankble/build/test
Start 1: Bullet getters
1/29 Test #1: Bullet getters .............................. Passed 0.00 sec
Start 2: Bullet coordinates
2/29 Test #2: Bullet coordinates .......................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 3: Bullet moving
3/29 Test #3: Bullet moving ............................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 4: Bullet moving to invalid area
4/29 Test #4: Bullet moving to invalid area ............... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 5: Map loading
5/29 Test #5: Map loading ................................. Passed 0.00 sec
Start 6: Check driving and flying
6/29 Test #6: Check driving and flying .................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 7: Check hitting
7/29 Test #7: Check hitting ............................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 8: Power ups
8/29 Test #8: Power ups ................................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 9: shift
9/29 Test #9: shift ....................................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 10: changed area
10/29 Test #10: changed area ................................ Passed 0.00 sec
Start 11: Tank creation
11/29 Test #11: Tank creation ............................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 12: Tank direction
12/29 Test #12: Tank direction .............................. Passed 0.00 sec
Start 13: check control
13/29 Test #13: check control ............................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 14: location related
14/29 Test #14: location related ............................ Passed 0.00 sec
Start 15: statistics
15/29 Test #15: statistics .................................. Passed 0.00 sec
Start 16: hitting
16/29 Test #16: hitting ..................................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 17: respawn
17/29 Test #17: respawn ..................................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 18: firing
18/29 Test #18: firing ...................................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 19: power-ups
19/29 Test #19: power-ups ................................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 20: Move points
20/29 Test #20: Move points ................................. Passed 0.00 sec
Start 21: Set element sizes
21/29 Test #21: Set element sizes ........................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 22: Config::getFps returns correct FPS values
22/29 Test #22: Config::getFps returns correct FPS values ... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 23: MenuItem initialization and properties
23/29 Test #23: MenuItem initialization and properties ...... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 24: Display initialization and properties
24/29 Test #24: Display initialization and properties ....... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 25: Menu usage
25/29 Test #25: Menu usage .................................. Passed 0.00 sec
Start 26: Status usage
26/29 Test #26: Status usage ................................ Passed 0.00 sec
Start 27: Check winning conditions
27/29 Test #27: Check winning conditions .................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 28: Player actions
28/29 Test #28: Player actions .............................. Passed 0.00 sec
Start 29: Drawing
29/29 Test #29: Drawing ..................................... Passed 0.00 sec
100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 29
Total Test time (real) = 0.06 sec
Ideas:
- Add sounds and some music in menu.
- Add points received during gameplay.
- Use more sophisticated font than basic built in one from Allegro library.
- Implement proper mechanism for dropping frames in cases of CPU spikes and performance lags.
