Gather resources and buy upgrades to dig as far as you can. You have to dig ores and sell them to earn cash which you use to buy fuel, digger upgrades, explosives, and other supplies. You can only sell ore and buy items at the surface. If you run out of fuel, your digger explodes and you die (game over). There are more valuable (and heavier) ores as you go deeper into the mine. There are several types of alien artifacts which are of considerable value and appear randomly throughout the mine (below 950 feet).
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Table of Contents

About The Project

My version

Getting Started

How To Play

Class structure

Checklist

Contact

Acknowledgments

About The Project

Here's why:

It's a classic game that I played when I was younger.

It's a game that I can make in a reasonable amount of time.

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My version

This section gives a clear and detailed overview of which parts of the original game I planned to make.

The minimum I will most certainly develop:

Player movement

Resource Collection

Random Generated world

The fuel and sell building

What I will probably make as well:

Dying

Working Lava

What I plan to create if I have enough time left:

Main Menu, Options Screen

Boss fight

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Getting Started

This project now includes a CMake build in addition to the original Visual Studio solution files. For the longer version, troubleshooting, and platform notes, see BUILDING.md.

Prerequisites

Windows

Visual Studio 2022 with the Desktop development with C++ workload

CMake 3.21 or newer

The repository already contains prebuilt SDL2 / SDL2_image / SDL2_mixer / SDL2_ttf Windows packages in Libraries/, and the CMake build will use those by default for MSVC / Visual Studio builds.

If you use CLion with MinGW, do not use the bundled SDL package. It is the Visual C++ SDL build and is not a proper MinGW dependency set.

Linux

Install the development packages first.

Ubuntu / Debian example:

sudo apt install build-essential cmake libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
Build with CMake

Windows, Visual Studio 2022

cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 cmake --build build --config Debug
The executable will be generated in build/bin/ or the selected Visual Studio configuration output folder. Resource files are copied automatically after the build.

Linux

cmake -S . -B build cmake --build build
The executable will be generated in build/bin/. Resource files are copied automatically after the build.

Run the game

After building, run the generated executable from the build output directory so that the copied resource files are next to it.

Notes

The original .sln and .vcxproj files are still present and can still be used in Visual Studio.

The CMake build creates the same two logical targets as the solution: Engine and Motherload.

On non-Windows platforms, SDL dependencies are expected to come from the system package manager.

On Windows, the bundled SDL dependencies are intended for MSVC, not MinGW.

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How to play

Controls

W A S D

Mouse For menues

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Class structure

Object composition

Player

The player has a bunch of objects in the Player class, These are

Animations

Particles

SoundEffects

WorldLevel

The world level contains all the objects for the "Main" Game. These are

Player

GridManager

Background Music

MainScreen (Game UI)

The Sun and Moon

Inheritance

Here are a couple examples on how i used Inheritance throughout the project.

Screens

The Screen class is the base class for all the screens in the game.

This Class manages all the GuiElements inside of it.

Also all the subscreens, eg. FuelScreen, SellScreen, even the Main Game ui is a subclass of the Screen type.

GuiElement

The whole Screen system is based on the GuiElement. This class has a Draw and Update Function.

This is because the Screen class calls these for each of the subclasses of a GuiElement.

For Example, the Button class is a subclass of GuiElement.

The Button class has a Draw and Update function that the Screen class calls. The screen does not know what type of

update it's calling, it just knows that it's calling the update function of a GuiElement.

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Checklist

Accept / set up github project

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Contact

Bram Verhulst - bram.verhulst@student.howest.be

Project Link: Here
Alternative Project Link (Gitea): Here

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Acknowledgments

Use this space to list resources you find helpful and would like to give credit to.

Example 1: cpp reference on std::vector

Dear ImGui for development

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