ncJump

ncJump is a project started on December 2020 with the purpose of learning and testing the capabilities of a new engine: nCine, an open-source C++ framework for 2D games developed by @encelo.

Some time ago, a bunch of members of the GameLoop community followed CS50's introduction to game development, and I though the sequence of games presented in that course could give me a good insight on what kind of game to create.

A couple of developers already made or started to make the first few games listed by that course. There is a Pong clone made by @encelo, a Flappy Bird clone made by @Vasile-Peste, and a Breakout clone under development by @mat3. I opted for a Super Mario Bros clone.

The idea is to follow the steps of CS50's lecture 4 by using nCine instead of Love2D.

Getting started

Some steps are required in order to ncJump-start, but luckily everything you need to know is documented on the nCine download web-page:

1. Install nCine and keep note of its build directory.

   NCINE_BUILD_DIR=<you/know>

2. Clone this repository.

   git clone https://github.com/Fahien/ncJump.git && cd ncJump

3. Initialize the data submodule

   git submodule update --init

4. Generate the project.

   cmake -GNinja -S. -Bbuild \
       -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON \
       -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
       -DnCine_DIR=$NCINE_BUILD_DIR
   cmake --build build

5. Start ncJumping!

   build/ncjump

Demo

Every push to the master branch triggers Emscripten deployment to this demo web-page. Please, open an issue if you find any bug!

Devlogs

A bunch of devlogs are published periodically in a GitHub discussion within the nCine project, and I highly recommend reading them to get an insight of the development history of the project together with the overall architectural design.

1. Writing down some code
2. Everything is entity
3. The smooth and the file
4. Jump and resize
5. Dynamics and destructibles
6. Push and pull
7. Enemies, factories, commands, and scripts
8. Dying and deploying

License

The source code is licensed under the MIT License.