The goal of this project is to take you back to the best part of your childhood. To do this, we are building a modern multidirectional scrolling shooter. Once finished, Retro-Carnage is going to be a worthy successor of classic video games like Ikari Warriors by SNK, War Zone by Core Design, or Dogs of War by Elite Systems.
This game is currently in development and not ready to get played, yet.
Development status as of 2024-10-13
You can find the latest builds for various platforms on the downloads page.
- Download the application archive for your platform
- Unzip the application archive
- On Linux only: make application executeable
chmod +x retro-carnage - Double click on application or use terminal to run
.\retro-carnagein application folder
First of all, you should install the necessary tools on your computer to be able to work with the source code. You will need git and Golang. Some scripts that make development easier are written in PowerShell. PowerShell is already installed when you're running Microsoft Windows. With Linux you still need to install PowerShell if you want to use the scripts - but this is optional.
Install the required libraries:
sudo apt-get install -y libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev libasound2-dev
Install the required libraries:
sudo dnf install libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel libXi-devel mesa-libGL-devel xorg-x11-server-devel alsa-lib-devel libXxf86vm-devel
Install tdm-gcc so that various go-bindings can be compiled. A installation with default option will do fine.
Get the code and assets
git clone https://github.com/Retro-Carnage-Team/retro-carnage.git
git clone https://github.com/Retro-Carnage-Team/retro-carnage-assets.git
Change into the src directory, install required modules, compile the application
cd retro-carnage
go get -d
go build
Start the game
./retro-carnage ../retro-carnage-assets
The repository contains IDE settings for Visual Studio Code to debug, run, and test the game.
Run the steps to install the development environment first (see previous chapter). Open a terminal, navigate into the application folder and run the test script:
pwsh ./test.ps1
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE.md file for details.
This game is based on the work of many great artists who share their work free of charge. See the ATTRIBUTION.md file for details.