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# Monster Defense
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An old game project of mine from 2011-2012. Was intended to be a kind of
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action-y shoot-em-up / bullet-hell / arena type game where the idea was
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to survive as long as you could against an onslaught of monsters in different
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arena-style levels with different types of hazards and other traps and a
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variety of enemies.
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Like many of my game projects, I never finished it. I only ever used
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placeholder artwork, never did any audio work whatsoever and only "designed"
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a single level (purely for testing purposes, of course). The gameplay is
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rather un-refined and dull after about the first minute of playing (at least,
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that is my feeling playing this for the first time in about 6 years at the
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time of writing this). Of course, in my defense, the game was never finished.
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Perhaps if I'd kept working on it, it would've developed into something a
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little bit more fun. Meh.
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As mentioned above, all artwork was placeholder. All character models were
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borrowed from Egoboo (you can find the [original assets here](https://github.com/egoboo/egoboo-assets)).
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Actually the fact that I left this project with placeholder character models
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from Egoboo is precisely what stopped me from uploading this code previously.
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But I just noticed today on a whim that those assets are released under a GPL3
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license ... so, hooray, I feel OK sharing all this now.
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I think the original MD2 model files were converted to my custom format via
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my [Md2ToMesh](https://github.com/gered/Md2ToMesh) tool, but it's possible I was using some customized/tweaked
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version of it and have now forgotten.
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The UI is implemented via [GWEN](https://github.com/garrynewman/GWEN). The
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UI skin is the default GWEN skin (at least at the time... I think the default
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skin for it is a bit different now maybe).
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Building this ... Back in 2011/2012 I know I somewhat regularly tested
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builds on Windows 7, Gentoo Linux and Mac OS X. I primarily developed this
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using Mac OS with Xcode. It depends on libSDL 1.2.x. If you have an old
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version of the now defunct Marmalade SDK (previously Airplay SDK), then
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you can even build a mobile version that will work on Android and iOS
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(well, an old version of iOS... the Android build still works on my Google
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Pixel albeit after clicking past a warning about the CPU being unsupported).
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I was able to build this today on Mac OS 10.13.6 after having installed
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the SDL.Framework (for libSDL 1.2.15) under /Library/Frameworks building
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via Makefile with LLVM installed via the Xcode Command Line Tools package.
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You can generate a Makefile for this by installing [Premake 4.4-beta5](https://premake.github.io/)
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and then running the included `generate_makefile` script.
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Somewhat similarly, I was able to also build this on Gentoo Linux today
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as well once libSDL 1.2.15 and premake 4.4-beta5 were installed, by using a
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Makefile generated via the same `generate_makefile` script.
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I assume this would still build fine on Windows using VC++ 2010. Probably
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also could build on MinGW.
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Because of the age of the included version of EASTL, I had to tweak
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`lib/eastl/include/EABase/eabase.h` a bit (in a rather poor way mind you)
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by commenting out a couple typedefs to resolve compile errors. Though,
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now that I think about it, EASTL was not a requirement and I did include a
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method to switch between it and the normal C++ STL (see `lib/stl/include/stlconfig/switchstl.h`).
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Meh.
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There's plenty of bad code in here, I'm not going to spend any time here
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dissecting it. We've all written klugdey crap before. :-)
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This code is using my [C/C++ framework I'd previously opensourced](https://github.com/gered/MyGameFramework).
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I think that code is slightly more up to date then this, but I could be wrong.
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This definitely does have some stuff that that other framework repository
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doesn't have anyway.
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Enjoy!
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