AGE-Game-Engine

AGE is a simple 2D console game engine runs in UNIX using third library Ncurses.

How-To-Run

1. You need to install ncurses using the following command

   sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

2. cd to the build directory and type

   make

3. Once it compiles, runs the executable called vm.

Architecture

• see /doc/uml.pdf for more details

Plan of Attack

• Controller
  • ✔Controller class
  • ✔Ncurses Adapter
  • ✔Timer
  • ✔Gneral engine class
• Model
  • WindowModel
    • mutiple inheritance from WindowModel
      • BoardWindow
      • StatusWindow
• View
  • CameraView
    • provide two different printing algorithms
  • TextView
  • 光栅化 - Rasterization
  • Painter's Algorithm
    • advantage
    • disadvantage
    • time & space complexcity
    • Limitations (cyclic overlap or piercing polygons)
  • Reverse Painter's Algorithm
  • Z-buffer Algorithm
• ObjectModel
  • nonCollidableObject
  • collidableObject
  • object can have different bounding (not just Rect, but cycle, or more complex geometry, so I need an abstract class named BoundingBox as a base class)
• Motion & Gravity
• Collision
• Quadtree
• Game1
• Game2
• trivial enhancement
• see /doc/plan.md for more details

Enhancement

• Quadtree - for fast collision detection (log(n))
  • brute force is O(n^2).

To Solve

1. displayView: recursively displayEachView OR simply display a 2D array
2. Camera: How camera works perfectly with WindowModel
   1. can GameWindow contains mutiple BoardWindow
3. board type: view and solid
4. Timer: encapsolate into controller
5. ✔Object: gravitation
6. ✔Model: Do we need another WindowModel inheritances from Model?
7. ✔Collision: enhancement - brute force detection vs. Quadtree/octree detection

Support Features

• Enhancement - using Decorator Pattern for switching
  • file I/O (support save and load)
  • colour
  • QuadtreeGrid
  • multiple controller
  • multiple scenes (muti-models may exists)
  • Event System ? (probably no need for this)