Asteroids

A tribute to the game Asteroids (1979) in our Game Engine. Written in C++ using GLFW, GLM, and GLEW.

Build

To build this project in Visual Studio 2019:

1. Open the Property Manager window under View -> Other Windows
2. Expand the root item and right-click on Debug|Win32 -> Add Existing Property Sheet
3. Select the OpenGL-PropertySheet.props file in the project directory
4. Repeat this process for Release|Win32

Build Warnings

If you get the following warning:

warning LNK4098: defaultlib \<library\> conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library

1. Open the project properties window,
2. Go to Linker -> Input -> Ignore Specific Default Libraries
3. Add the conflicting library to the field

Authors

Hardy Whitney — Lucas Rumney

Attribution

Template

Used the development template established in our OpenGL Development Template for Microsoft Visual Studio.

Entity Component System Structure

ECS Structure based heavily on Austin Morlan's amazing article.