Platformer

A remake of the first level of the delightful 1990 Gamebody platformer Gargoyle's Quest.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6b2ec470-99ec-4767-b534-59aec8785461

Dependencies

Most dependencies are managed by cargo, but men plan and god laughs; on linux libudev is required to build gilrs. Probably more, but I developed this on Ubuntu and Fedora with a ton of dev libs already installed.

# play the game
cargo run

# start at an arbitrary checkpoint
# checkpoint 0 is level start, 1 is about halfway, and 2 is the boss
cargo run -- -c 1

# play with original gameboy aspect ratio and viewport zoom
cargo run -- --gameboy

Controls

• A/D Move left and right
• W Jump, hold to jump higher. Press again while in-air to hover briefly.
• Space Fire
• F1 Pause
• Esc Quit

Note: Gamepad input is supported, and much more fun.

Why?

To learn wgpu, and to get more experience in Rust - which is why I didn't use any of the the eminently capable rust game engines out there such as Bevy.

Architecture

See Architecture

TODO

1. Continuously update to whatever is current wgpu
2. Ensure current sprite pipeline is better named to make clear it's for rendering individual quads, even if in a batch of thousands
3. Implement single-quad stage rendering using a sprite table texture which indexes into the spritemap.