RETRO CARNAGE

The goal of this project is to take you back to the best part of your childhood. To do this, we are building a modern multidirectional scrolling shooter. Once finished, Retro-Carnage is going to be a worthy successor of classic video games like Ikari Warriors by SNK, War Zone by Core Design, or Dogs of War by Elite Systems.

This game is currently in development and not ready to get played, yet.

Development status as of 2021-08-09

Getting the latest release

You can find the latest builds for various platforms on the release page.

• Latest version for Linux x86-64
• Latest version for Windows x86-64

Run the game

• Download the application archive for your platform
• Unzip the application archive
• On Linux only: make application executeable chmod +x retro-carnage
• Double click on application or use terminal to run .\retro-carnage in application folder

Getting Started

Prerequisites

All platforms

• git
• Golang (>= 1.22)
• PowerShell

On Ubuntu

Install the required libraries:

sudo apt-get install -y libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev libasound2-dev

On Fedora

Install the required libraries:

sudo dnf install libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel libXi-devel mesa-libGL-devel xorg-x11-server-devel alsa-lib-devel libXxf86vm-devel

On Windows

Install tdm-gcc so that various go-bindings can be compiled. A installation with default option will do fine.

Installing

Get the code and assets

git clone https://github.com/Retro-Carnage-Team/retro-carnage.git
git clone https://github.com/Retro-Carnage-Team/retro-carnage-assets

Change into the src directory, install required modules, compile the application

cd retro-carnage
go get -d
go build

Start the game

./retro-carnage ../retro-carnage-assets

The repository contains IDE settings for Visual Studio Code to debug, run, and test the game.

Running the tests

Run the steps to install the development environment first (see previous chapter). Open a terminal, navigate into the application folder and run the test script:

pwsh .\test.ps1

Authors

• Thomas Werner

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE.md file for details.

Acknowledgments

This game is based on the work of many great artists who share their work free of charge. See the ATTRIBUTION.md file for details.