Thread: Atlantis

Atlantis: this is what I've been working on for the past little while. It's a clone of the board game Escape from Atlantis. As always, atlantis is open source, under the GPL v3.

Get it here: http://dwks.theprogrammingsite.com/myprogs/atlantis.htm
Run atlantis-2.1.2-1/atlantis (plus .exe for Windows).

[edit] Check out this screen shot: http://dwks.theprogrammingsite.com/m...antis-ss-1.png [/edit]

Please download atlantis and try it out! Let me know what you think of it.

Unlike most of my projects, atlantis is reasonably complete at the moment. I guess it's probably a pretty boring game as computer games go, but I thought I'd post it here anyway. Check out the README: http://dwks.theprogrammingsite.com/m...tlantis/README

Atlantis is built on top of a new library of mine that I call mundus, which is basically xuni in C++. If you download atlantis, try running atlantis-2.1.2-1/src/mundus/space (.exe if you got the windows version). It's mundus's test program. (Though I guess atlantis itself is a mundus test program.)

Together, mundus and atlantis (both C++) total over 6000 lines, by far my largest C++ project ever. Not in xuni's league yet, but still. I started mundus less than two months ago.

I'm using git for version control. The git repository isn't online at the moment. CMake is my build system, but I had to build the Windows version without it.

Note: I'm pretty sure that in the real atlantis game, you sink the island before moving animals. I haven't gotten around to fixing that yet.

I made all of the atlantis artwork in blender. Great fun.

Note: I don't have permission from the publisher of Escape from Atlantis to make a clone of their game. On the other hand, it's a pretty old game, and I do own a physical copy of it.

Update: I've uploaded the git repositories for atlantis and mundus. If you have a Linux system, you can download the -git archive and follow these instructions: http://dwks.theprogrammingsite.com/m...git-unpack.htm

[edit] I've also created a screenshot of atlantis, so you can be amazed by its graphics and download it immediately.
http://dwks.theprogrammingsite.com/m...antis-ss-1.png
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[edit=2] I created a new Windows archive in .ZIP format with all of the required DLLs (get it here). I just tried it on a virtually clean Windows XP system, and it worked. The only thing is, the Windows version refuses to go out of fullscreen mode. I imagine it's my fault, probably an uninitialized bool fullscreen variable or something. [/edit]

[edit=3] Yeah, the fullscreen variable is uninitialized. But still, it should work after the first toggle. Oh well, who knows. [/edit]

I managed to compile a 32-bit Linux binary in case anyone's interested. (Under Debian etch.)

Yes, I just whipped up the artwork in a few minutes. The blue people are much too similar to the ocean, for example.

I think I will try to get a fancier background in eventually. Recently I've been trying to make it more efficient -- mundus repaints the whole screen 30 times per second (if it can), which really isn't necessary. But it's turned out to be pretty difficult to do. I don't really expect to get it done in a reasonable period of time -- I'm far too busy at the moment.

I guess the main gameplay issue is that you can't move a unit onto the same hexagon (like to put a swimmer onto a boat, or to take a unit off of a dolphin, for example). I was planning on implementing this sooner or later, too. It shouldn't be too difficult, but then I haven't done it yet.

Anyway, glad you liked what I have so far . . . .

[edit] Oh, and the 32-bit Linux binary package I mentioned? It doesn't work. I think I uploaded the wrong archive. [/edit]

I think it's unfortunate you didn't get more replies. I just wanted to say good job, and keep up the good work man. A lot of people have a very difficult time getting this far.

Thanks, I really appreciate it.

Atlantis wasn't really as difficult as it looks. There were some tricky parts, of course. For one thing, it's C++, not C. I'd never done A-star pathfinding before, but it was straightforward to implement. The hexagonal board presented some difficulties as well. Plus lots of other things that I've forgotten by now.

I think the hardest part of Atlantis was making sure I'd implemented the whole game, and that it didn't break when you did strange things. Even with such a simple world, there are an unbelievable number of corner cases. And the trickiest part of mundus was designing the classes, which I didn't do a very good job on. Oh well.

Side note: I think that no one looks at this forum (the Projects one that is). It's my theory, anyway.

Originally Posted by dwks

Side note: I think that no one looks at this forum (the Projects one that is). It's my theory, anyway.

Well, I just open whatever posts catch my attention, whatever forum it's in.
Good luck with that project.

Originally Posted by master5001

>> Well, I just open whatever posts catch my attention, whatever forum it's in.

I usually just read whatever is unread. Where ever that may be.

Yes, that is what I mean by whatever catches my interest.
Unread threads that catch my interest, whichever forum that may be in

I have to admit though, and this may be ubber dorky of me, but as a C guy I always save the C forums for last since I like that forum best.

What's dorky about saving the best for last?

As for me, I tend to read threads I have replied in first, and then recent threads with very few or lots of replies.

I read it, I just didn't have time for a side project when you posted it. Now I do have more time, but already got tagged to do two side projects. Usually, just in case you don't know me that well dwks. If you want me to do a side-project with you and you have received zero response from me, just personally asking me wears me down quickly.

Don't worry about it -- the thread wasn't directed at you personally or anything.

>> Side note: I think that no one looks at this forum (the Projects one that is). It's my theory, anyway.
Well this thread has 7 replies and 666 views ... so I guess you're right. Nobody reads 'em.

Edit: Now 8 replies.

Mmm hmm, and half of those eight replies were me.