Catapult

Catapult is a cross-platform launcher and content manager for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and Cataclysm: Bright Nights. It is in part inspired by earlier versions of Rémy Roy's launcher.

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Features

• Automatic game download and installation (stable or experimental releases).
• Ability to install multiple versions of the game and switch between them.
• Updating the game while preserving user data (saved games, settings, mods, etc).
• Mod management: Kenan Modpack download and complete or selective installation.
• Automatic download and installation of soundpacks.
• Customization of game fonts.
• Saved game backups.
• Multilingual interface.
• Fully portable and can be carried on a removable drive.
• Good support for HiDPI displays: UI is automatically scaled with screen DPI, with ability to adjust the scale manually.

Installation

None required. The launcher is a single, self-contained executable. Just download it to a separate folder and run.

Linux

• You need write permission in the folder that contains the Catapult executable.
• The catapult executable should have execution permission enabled.
• The game needs the following dependencies, Some distros come with these preinstalled, but others don't.: sdl2, sdl2_image, sdl2_ttf, sdl2_mixer, freetype2
  • On Debian based distros (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.): sudo apt install libsdl2-image libsdl2-ttf libsdl2-mixer libfreetype6
  • On Arch based distros sudo pacman -S sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_ttf sdl2_mixer
  • On Fedora based distros sudo dnf install SDL2 SDL2_image SDL2_ttf SDL2_mixer freetype

Packaging

• For Arch Linux, an unofficial AUR package is available.

System requirements

• 64-bit operating system.
• Windows 7+ or Linux.
• OpenGL 2.1 support.

Contributing

Checkout CONTRIBUTING.md.