thorium

Lokathor does stuff, ium.

This repo isn't about any particular thing right now. It's just about doing some exploratory coding to try out new stuff.

Current Goal

Building an sdl2 based platform layer

Segment Complete

So far we've got:

• A Win32 platform layer for our "game" based on the Handmade Hero platform layer from the first 23 days of that series.
• The platform can save state and load state.
• The platform can record input and play it back. The start of input recording automatically triggers a save state, and the end of input recording automatically triggers a load state and input playback. When an input playback is complete it will automatically load the state and loop the replay until you manually cancel the replay loop.
• The platform layer can detect when the library is recompiled and automatically switch to running on the new code. This combines quite well with the input playback, allowing you to tune code and watch it play out differently. You can't change data layout while the game is running like this, but you can tune the game details.
• The library has a renderer for Game Boy style graphics.

Check out the the book to get more detail about where we've been so far.

The Future

If you wanna see where we're going you should check the issue tracker, which is where I've written down notes about things I might wanna do. I'm easily distracted, so we might do something else at any time.

Contribution

This crate is released under the Zero-Clause BSD license, and any contributions of yours must be under the same license. It's similar to the MIT license but with even fewer restrictions.

This crate uses SDL2 (zlib license) to interface with the local OS. Windows/MSVC builds of the SDL2 library are kept in the repository for easy building. See the SDL2 download page for other versions of SDL2 if needed.