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MonsterWar

MonsterWar is a cross-platform tower defense game developed in C++ with Entt, SDL3, glm, ImGui, nlohmann-json and Tiled.

This project is a teaching demonstration project; it is the 4th episode in a series of tutorials titled "C++ 游戏开发之旅".

Control

Mouse left - select a unit from UI portrait / place a unit on map;
S - Skill active shortcut;
R - Retreat shortcut;
U - Upgrade shortcut;
P - pause or resume;
A,D / left,right - to move UI portrait panel;

Play on Webpage

MonsterWar

• Note: The game uses ImGui for temporary UI, so you need to resize the webpage size to fit the screen. Otherwise some UI elements may not be visible.

ScreenShot

<img src="https://theorhythm.top/gamedev/MW/screen_shot_mw-en1.webp" style='width: 800px;'/> <img src="https://theorhythm.top/gamedev/MW/screen_shot_mw-en2.webp" style='width: 800px;'/> <img src="https://theorhythm.top/gamedev/MW/screen_shot_mw-en3.webp" style='width: 800px;'/>

Third-party libraries

• EnTT
• SDL3
• SDL3_image
• SDL3_mixer
• SDL3_ttf
• glm
• ImGui
• nlohmann-json
• spdlog

How to build

Dependencies will be automatically downloaded by Git FetchContent to make building quite easy:

bashCopy
git clone https://github.com/WispSnow/MonsterWar.git
cd MonsterWar
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build

If you encounter trouble downloading from GitHub (especially on networks in mainland China), please refer to the wiki for an alternative building guide.

Credits

• sprite

  • https://pixelfrog-assets.itch.io/tiny-swords
  • https://pipoya.itch.io/pipoya-free-2d-game-character-sprites
  • https://htmljsgit.itch.io/magic-area

• portrait

  • https://blog.goo.ne.jp/akarise
  • https://roughsketch.en-grey.com/

• FX

  • https://bdragon1727.itch.io/750-effect-and-fx-pixel-all
  • https://sentient-dream-games.itch.io/pixel-vfx-level-up-effect

• font

  • https://timothyqiu.itch.io/vonwaon-bitmap

• UI

  • https://ludicarts.itch.io/free-rpg-icon-set-i
  • https://clockworkraven.itch.io/free-rpg-icon-pack-100-weapons-and-po-clockwork-raven-studios
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/emotes-pack
  • https://bdragon1727.itch.io/custom-border-and-panels-menu-all-part

• sound

  • https://ateliermagicae.itch.io/fantasy-ui-sound-effects
  • https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/violin-lose-4-185125/
  • https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/level-win-6416/
  • https://freesound.org/people/SilverIllusionist/sounds/664265/ (Healing (Balm).wav by Dylan Kelk)
  • https://freesound.org/people/DWOBoyle/sounds/136696/

• music

  • https://tommusic.itch.io/free-fantasy-sfx-and-music-bundle
  • https://www.chosic.com/download-audio/45301/

• Sponsors: sino, 李同学, swrainbow, 爱发电用户_b7469, 玉笔难图, jl

Contact

For support or feedback, please contact us through the GitHub issues section of this repository. Your feedback is crucial for making this series of tutorials better!

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