dinosaur-game

A simple jumping dinosaur game in C++ that is inspired from T-Rex Runner game in Google Chrome

This is for me to learn and play around with C++ after a long time abandoning it

Resources + Inspiration

• Basic example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9SfkPTn5BU
• Extracted version: https://github.com/congerh/dino?tab=readme-ov-file
• Source code: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/neterror/resources/offline-sprite-definitions.js

Learning

• C++ OOP: Pass by reference, class composition, header vs cpp
• Basic game mechanics: C++ SFML, sprite loading, collision boxes

Requirements

• cmake: brew install cmake (MacOS)

  • A cross-platform build system generator used to manage the build process of software projects

• vcpkg: brew install vcpkg (MacOS) and follow other instructions from brew's messages after brew finishes installing

  • A C/C++ package manager by Microsoft

Run

LEGACY:

• Must run ./build/Dinosaur at the root of the project so that it can find images

NOW:

• cmake --preset=default -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1: Prepare a build folder according to our preset
• cmake --build ./build/: Actually build our C/C++ files into target using our CMakeLists.txt
• ./build/Dinosaur: Run our game executable

Quick Demo

Screen.Recording.2024-08-03.at.10.31.06.PM.mov