The-Maze

Project landing page

Install

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

Install hombebrew for mac: https://brew.sh/ MacOS: brew install sdl2

SDL website: https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php

How to play

Install the SDL2 library, clone the repository, then using the MakeFile, you can use the

• make
• make run

commands or by executing the executable (./The_Maze).

The player can use the arrows keys to move inside the maze, there is no exit.

Table of content:

• My story
• What is The Maze
• Inspiration
• How to develop without a game engine
• What I could have done more
• Sources
• Author

My story

The Maze game has been done for the final project of the first year at Holberton School.

As a gamer, and developer, I want my future job to be a Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality game developer, so making a game for my final project was an evidence for me.

I already got a little bit of knowledge about the Unity game engine and at first I wanted to do a game on this engine, but, I told myself: "But how do you do a game without a game engine?".

This is how The Maze started

What is The Maze

The Maze is a game in which the player spawn at the center of the map, and is locked in a maze (I had quite the inspiration for the project name right?), the player can try to find the exit (but there is none, evil laught).

Inspiration

The Maze project is a game directly inspired by a famous game: Wolfeinstein3D, Wolfeinstein3D is a game made in 1992, developped by id Software, made without a game engine (exactly what I needed, hallelujah).

How to develop without a game engine

To make the game, I used the C language because i already knew some of it, (I could have tried the C++) and the most important thing here was to find the thing to be able to do a game without a game engine, this thing is the SDL library.

For this project, the SDL library was useful for creating a window, rendering things on the window like forms, colors, textures, and taking the user inputs.

SDL site: https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php

What I could have done more

• I could have implemented an exit to my labyrinth / EndGame
• I could have implemented objects
• I could have implemented enemies (Like Wolfeinstein3D) / gun in players hands
• I could have implemented rain

And so on, only imagination and skills can make it possible.

Sources

https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php

https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html

https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/trigonometry.html

https://github.com/elanthis/upng

(And some youtube videos)

Author

Alrick Deperiers deperiers.a@gmail.com