A remake of the first level of the delightful 1990 Gamebody platformer Gargoyle's Quest.
platformer.mp4
Most dependencies are managed by cargo, but men plan and god laughs; on linux libudev is required to build gilrs. Probably more, but I developed this on Ubuntu and Fedora with a ton of dev libs already installed.
# play the game
cargo run
# start at an arbitrary checkpoint
# checkpoint 0 is level start, 1 is about halfway, and 2 is the boss
cargo run -- -c 1
# play with original gameboy aspect ratio and viewport zoom
cargo run -- --gameboy- A/D Move left and right
- W Jump, hold to jump higher. Press again while in-air to hover briefly.
- Space Fire
- F1 Pause
- Esc Quit
Note: Gamepad input is supported, and much more fun.
To learn wgpu, and to get more experience in Rust - which is why I didn't use any of the the eminently capable rust game engines out there such as Bevy.
See Architecture
- Continuously update to whatever is current
wgpu - Ensure current sprite pipeline is better named to make clear it's for rendering individual quads, even if in a batch of thousands
- Implement single-quad stage rendering using a sprite table texture which indexes into the spritemap.