This is a very small action/adventure game, where you explore a "large" world, encounter foes and puzzles.

The whole world is stored in a BMP file called world.bmp. The color of every pixel denotes a single cell in the game. The size of the bitmap is 512 x 256 pixels, which is the excat size of the game world. You see always an area of 32x16 pixels/cells.

Color	Image	Description
#000000		Free space.
#4e4a4e		Solid wall, cannot be destroyed by any means.
#70402a		Breakable wall, can be destroyed by arrows.
#004000		Trees, cannot be destroyed by any means.
#4a2a1b		Dead trees, cannot be destroyed by any means.
#008000		Grass. Player destroys it on touch.
#000096		Water. Blocks movement, but allows arrows/bolts to fly over. Boulders will destroy water.
#8595a1		Boulder. Can be pushed by player to empty spaces, water or monsters.
#ffffff		Player start position. There should be only ONE pixel of this kind!
#400000		Monster Level 1. Deals 1 damage. Will be destroyed by arrows / player.
#800000		Monster Level 2. Deals 2 damage. Will be destroyed by player. Arrow will degrade it to level 1.
#c00000		Monster Level 3. Deals 3 damage. Will be destroyed by player. Arrow will degrade it to level 2.
#ff0000		Monster Level 4. Deals 4 damage. Will be destroyed by player. Arrow will degrade it to level 3.
#ff8000		Bolt Trap. Shoots bolts in all 4 directions in a regular interval.
#ff6400		Monster Shrine. Spawns random monster in regular intervals in a random direction. You can make it less dangerous, if you block some sides.
#6dc2ca		Teleporter. Player will be teleported to corresponding teleporter.

Teleporters are a bit tricky to get used to. If a player touches a teleporter, it will scan in the direction the player moved until it finds another teleporter. Then will place the player one cell adhead in that direction. Think of a pipe in a straight line. You enter the pipe on one end, and leave it at the other end.

You need a somewhat modern (C11) C compiler and SDL3 libraries in order to build this game. It is known to work with Clang 17 and GCC 15.

On those systems it's fairly simple to build this game. Just type make and you are ready.

make

Not yet :)

Not yet :)

• keep everything in one C file
• keep it as simple as possible
• tile based movement
• real-time gameplay
• cellular automata structure of the world

• magic flasks to wipe out any enemy in sight
• chop trees with axes
• keys / doors
• treasure chests
• loading / saving the game on statues/campfires
• activator tiles, which can be activated by the player and transmit a signal to adjacent cells (like redstone in Minecraft)
• some kind of asset archive (not just loading the files directly from some directory)
• using SDL3 storage system for cross-plattform compatible directories to store savegames
• some kind of intro screen
• replays

Here I list all the work which is not done by me.

The games uses the 16 Color DawnBringer palette.

Super Dialogue Audio Pack V1 Produced by Dillon Becker (dillonbecker.com) These files are licensed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)