README.md

Platform Engine

Platform engine is a work in progress using the r-tech1 library.

Background

Create an engine to easily script up a platformer in Python.

Requirements

• Scons
• r-tech1 library
• Python development libraries
• libz

Setup

# Basic build
$ scons

# With debugging symbols
$ export DEBUG=1
$ scons

# To run
$ ./platformer

Example Definition Script

The configuration or definitions have not been finalized. Below is just an example of what it looks like now:

; Test of mario bros.

(platformer
    ; The name of the platformer game
    (name "Super Mario Bros.")
    
    ; A few font mappings derived from a bitmap
    ;@(font 
        (name smb) 
        (ignore-case 1)
        (filename "platformer/smb/images/smb-font.png")
        (character-map "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ :-.")
        )
    (font 
        (name small) 
        (filename "platformer/smb/images/font1.png")
        (character-map "_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789.,!?-+/():;%&`'*#=[]\"")
        )
    (font
        (name large) 
        (filename "platformer/smb/images/font2.png")
        (character-map "_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789.,!?-+/():;%&`'*#=[]\"<>()^~|_@$\\")
        )
    
    ; Starting world defnition file
    (world "platformer/smb/worlds/world-1-1.txt")
)