# flasim

FlaSim is a mini game I did as a birthday party gag. It lets you manually control an anti-aircraft cannon with your joystick. Five jets are then randomly spawned (one after the other) as targets to be engaged by the player. There is a [blog post](https://polylux.eu/blog/4/) about the implementation aspects of the game.

## Controls

You'll need a joystick to play the game. The game starts out with no enemies so you can get used to steering the cannons. Joystick button 1 fires, button 2 reloads the guns (15 seconds penalty). Pressing F9 activates the game mode which spawns a plane every 45 secs (so scan your horizon!), F10 quits game mode (same as when 'aircraft remain' is zero), F12 quits the game.
Successfully engaging a plane rewards you with 1000 points plus bonus for the distance (the further out the more points). Relevant info is shown in the top-left corner.

## About the game

The game uses the irrlicht graphics engine for the eye and cAudio for the ear. It's quite of simple complexity and might hence serve as a good example for someone learning about game and/or graphics programming.
About the visual content shown in the game: I did some parts myself (cannon model, crosshairs, terrain), all other stuff is from free content websites. 

## Building flasim

Currently only Linux works, should have a windows buildability in a couple of days.
The game is written in QtCreator and hence uses the qmake build system. You should have gcc, qmake, irrlicht and OpenAL installed and handy.

### Prerequirements

1. Fetch the submodules.
1. `cd` into `ext/cAudio` and issue `cmake -DCAUDIO_BUILD_EAX_PLUGIN=ON -DCAUDIO_BUILD_MP3DECODER_PLUGIN=OFF -DCAUDIO_ENABLE_OGG=OFF -DCAUDIO_BUILD_SAMPLES=OFF -DCAUDIO_DEPENDENCIES_DIR=Dependencies64 -DCAUDIO_STATIC=ON`
1. `make` cAudio

### Build flasim

`cd` to the `prj` folder and run qmake to get a Makefile out of `flasim.pro`. Build the game using `make`. Done.

Questions? Reach me at otto@socialnerds.org