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Hey! We're giving this another go! gamedev2gamedevgamedev was started as a high school project between drumsetmonkey and tcsullivan, written in C++ and using SDL2/OpenGL. The goal of this project was to have a completed commercial-grade video game available for Linux and Windows users; the plan was to profit off the game once it and the engine were finished. Through the first year and a half of development we quickly learned that the game's engine would need the most focus, as we were starting from complete scratch. Due to this, there is no playable, plot-based game (yet?).  However, the engine is still growing. Development has now slowed to a crawl with the start of our college lives, but changes will still be made every now and then. Maybe a true video game will eventually come out of this, but the engine will always remain open source.  Build RequirementsThe 'gamedev' project can be built on both Linux-based and Windows operating systems. The game has been verified (at some point) to work on Debian, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows 7/10. The following programs and libraries are required to build 'gamedev':makeg++SDL2, SDL2image, and SDL2mixerFreeType 2GLEWgifliblua (liblua linked into program)Windows builds are done with msys2, 64-bit. The compiler must support C++17.  Build PreparationThe Makefile expects a file named setup.mk to exist. It needs to define two variables:TARGET_OS = # either win32 or linuxTARGET_BITS = # either 32 or 64A settings file must also exist. Take the sample one to start:(from the root directory)cp config/settings.xml.example config/settings.xmlFinally, create an output directory (used for compiling):mkdir -p out/systems out/componentsBuildingEntityX needs to be built only once before building the rest of gamedev, a library file will be outputted that the main Makefile uses for the main build.cd entityxmakecd ..To build the engine:makeThis command may be multithreaded using the -j argument.  To run on Linux, once built:./mainTo run on Windows:main.exeThe executable takes the following arguments:-r, which will reset XML data and delete player data-d, which will initialize the engine, and then exit-x, tells the engine which XML file to load. Looks in the XML folder defined in config/setting.xml-d is mainly used in conjunction with -r, to reset the XML files and then exit the game before they can be rewritten.ControlsThe following are the controls for the game. Any extra controls can be found somewhere in src/ui.cpp or src/player.cppSome controls can be adjusted using the in-game control menu.Movement:* 'esc' for the menu* 'a' and 'd' move the player left and right* 'w' enters buildings* 'e' opens the inventory* 'space' makes the player jump if he obtains the jumping skill* 'L-Shift' sprints if the player obtains the running skill* 'L-Ctrl' decreases the player's speed* 'h' opens a current quest menuOther:* 'f3' for debug information* 'f12' for screenshot* 't' speeds up time (ticks)