Arcade

A collection of classic arcade games — Pacman, Breakout, and Asteroids, with Tetris in development — built from scratch in C++ with SDL2.

Games

Game	Status	Description
Pacman	Playable	Multiple levels with the classic maze, super pellets, and ghost AI.
Breakout	Playable	Three levels, each with a unique brick layout.
Asteroids	Playable	Space combat with power-ups and screen-shake on impact.
Tetris	In development	Not yet playable.

Engine features

• Animated sprites, buttons, and letter animations
• Color gradients
• Screen shake and other juice effects

Project Structure

The project follows a Core/App architecture, split into two subprojects generated with Premake 5:

• Core — a static library with engine code shared across all games (rendering, input, animation, etc.), built from Core/.
• Arcade — the game executable, built from Arcade/, containing each game's scenes and assets and linking against Core.

Third-party dependencies (SDL2) live under Core/Vendor/.

Building

Requires Premake 5 (bundled under Vendor/Binaries/Premake/).

Windows

1. Clone the repository.
2. From Scripts/, run Setup-Windows.bat to generate a Visual Studio 2022 solution.
3. Open Arcade.sln and build the Arcade project.
4. Use the Release configuration for the best performance — Debug is significantly slower.

Linux

1. Clone the repository.
2. From Scripts/, run Setup-Linux.sh to generate Makefiles via GNU Make (gmake2).
3. Build with make from the repository root (add config=release_x64 for an optimized build).

Controls

Key	Action
Arrow keys	Move / navigate menus
A	Confirm / action
S	Cancel / back

License

Released into the public domain under The Unlicense.