Retro Dash

Retro Dash is a 2D side scroller created for the #64Brew Game Jam. Clear all obstacles in your way by executing precise jumps combined with your ability to change size on demand. The difficulty can be adjusted by changing the player's speed in the settings menu.

Click here to try the game in your browser.

Building for Nintendo 64

You will need to have nodejs and docker installed.

1. Ensure you have built the mksprite tool from the libdragon repo. It is loacted in the tools/mksprite directory.
2. From the root of the repo run npm install to install the libdragon docker container.
3. Run npx libdragon start to start the docker container.
4. Run node tools/prepare_n64_assets.js /path/to/libdragon/tools/mksprite/mksprite to prepare the game assets.
5. Run npx libdragon make clean to clear previous build artifacts.
6. Run npx libdragon make to build the ROM file.

Testing with cen64

cen64 can easily be built from source on linux and MacOS with cmake. On macOS you will need to install and run the emulator using the xquartz terminal. You can run brew cask install xquartz to easily install it.

1. Clone cen64 from github.
2. Create a build directory: cd cen64 && mkdir build && cd build
3. Build the emulator: cmake .. && make

In order to run the emulator you will need to get access to a pifdata.bin BIOS file. Test the game by invoking the emulator from a terminal window:

	./cen64 -multithread /path/to/pifdata.bin /path/to/RetroDash.z64

Building for Desktop

You will need to have cmake, nodejs, and sdl installed.

MacOS: brew install sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_ttf sdl2_mixer
Ubuntu Linux: sudo apt-get -y install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev
Windows: cd build && conan install .. --build=sdl2_mixer

node tools/prepare_sdl_assets.js
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

Building with Emscripten

Build the HTML / JS / WebAssembly using the emsdk docker container:

node tools/prepare_emscripten_assets.js
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/src -u $(id -u):$(id -g) emscripten/emsdk /bin/bash -c "cd build-emscripten; emcmake cmake ..; make"

Start web server: npx http-server Play the game in the browser: http://localhost:8080/build-emscripten/RetroDash.html