Dorkanoid

This Arkanoid-like game was inspired by the following Youtube tutorial by Vittorio Romeo. It's a good introduction to the SFML library and uses C++ 11 features.

• Arkanoid Clone Tutorial
• Github

After following the tutorial, I've enhanced the code and added the following features:

• Stages
• Improved code structure
• Points
• Music and sound effects
• Randomization of ball mechanics

Media Credits

Music created by freesound user dAmbient and licensed under the CC Attribution License.

Sound effects created using the awesome JSFXR.

Arkanoid

For those of you retro gaming nuts, you'll notice that this version differs pretty significantly from the original. The goal of the project isn't to create a clone of the original game, but to create a game in similar style that's still enjoyable to play.

If you'd like a true Arkanoid clone, you should take this project as a starting point and build your own! ;)

History of Arkanoid

Instructions to Build

The project provides two build options: CMake and custom Ninja build.

CMake (Windows)

To build with CMake (tested on Windows):

• vcpkg to install SFML: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
• Make sure to set CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE to your vcpkg install or use the --toolchain argument to CMake. Example: vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake

mkdir build
cmake -B build -G 'Visual Studio 17 2022'
cmake --build build

Or, to use NMake instead of MSBuild:

cmake -B build -G 'NMake Makefiles'
cmake --build build

Note: so far I haven't had any success getting CMake to generate a static build, although the custom Ninja build below does this reasonably well.

Ninja (Windows)

To create a static build Windows 10, install the following:

• MSVC C++ Build Tools (or Visual Studio 2019-2022 with C++ Desktop installed)
• Build or install ninja: https://ninja-build.org
• Python 3 (tested with Python 3.10)
• vcpkg to install SFML: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
  • vcpkg install sfml x64-windows-static
  • You can also use a standalone directory with the same lib and include structure as vcpkg uses.

Run the following:

python scripts/configure.py --sfml-path 'C:\path-to-vcpkg\vcpkg\installed\x64-windows-static'
ninja

The configure script will assume that you have a standalone x64-windows-static folder with the needed dependencies at the root of the project unless you pass the --sfml-path argument.

Using a standalone directory:

You can provide a standalone directory with the same structure as vcpkg's x64-windows-static folder. Unzip this as x64-windows-static in the root of the project directory, or provide it as --sfml-path to the configure script.

Ninja (Linux: Ubuntu)

To build the game on linux (specifically tested on Ubuntu 20.04), install the following:

sudo apt-get install libsfml-dev build-essential ninja-build

I use a python script for building the project. It works with Python 3:

python3 scripts/configure.py

As with make, this script will only build the source files that have been modified.

License:

Original code distributed under the following license terms:

// Inspired by https://github.com/SuperV1234/Tutorials
//
// Original source code Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Vittorio Romeo
// License: Academic Free License ("AFL") v. 3.0
// AFL License page: http://opensource.org/licenses/AFL-3.0
//
// NOTICE: According to the terms of the AFL-3.0, this code has
// been substantially altered from the original by Matthew MacGregor.

Some code files are new/original, and these I have licensed conveniently using the AFL-3.0 as well:

// Copyright (c) 2015-2022 Matthew MacGregor
// License: Academic Free License ("AFL") v. 3.0
// AFL License page: http://opensource.org/licenses/AFL-3.0