Colorful is a simple 2D side-shooter game, originally created in 48 hours for the Ludum Dare event, 25th edition (December 2012).
This is the "post-compo" version of the game - it has received numerous enhancements and bug fixes.
You can download the game from Itch.io, Flathub, F-Droid, or from the Releases tab here on GitHub.
The game is available for Linux, Windows, and Android.
To build Colorful, you'll need the following dependencies:
.wav
sound effects to .ogg
Before you can build, you need to get a copy of Pascal SDL2 units. The recommended version to use can be found in the PGD SDL2-For-Pascal repository, although you're free to try compiling the game using any others.
The repo links to aforementioned headers by the means of a git submodule, so if you don't want to experiment, run the following commands:
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
This should fetch the SDL2 headers for you.
The build process includes a custom configuration script, which can be used to tailor the build process to your needs. The script takes the following options:
--android
Controls whether Android-specific build settings are enabled.
The default value is false
.
--assets <bundle, standalone, systemwide>
Specifies where the game should expect asset files to be located.
bundle
: Assets are expected to be found two directory levels
above the executable, like in the following structure:standalone
: Assets are expected to be found in the same directory,
right next to the executable.systemwide
: Assets are expected to be found
in ${PREFIX}/share/suve/colorful
.The default value is standalone
.
--compat <auto, v1, v2>
Controls whether the game should be built with compatibility for old config
files and savegames. This means that users upgrading from an old version
of the game will have their settings and savegames preserved.
v1
: Include compat code for v1 files.v2
: Support only v2 files.The default value is auto
, which resolves to v2
for Android builds
and "v1" otherwise.
--debug
Controls whether debugging features are enabled.
The default value is false
.
--donate
Controls whether the "Donate" option appears in the main menu.
The default value is true
.
--fpc PATH
Use the Free Pascal Compiler located at PATH
.
The default is to use fpc
.
--flags FLAGS
Pass FLAGS
to fpc. Can be specified multiple times.
--ogg-quality QUALITY
Encode sound effects to .ogg
with this quality setting.
The default value is 10
.
--platform <auto, desktop, mobile>
Controls whether the game should be built in desktop mode (keyboard focus,
no touch controls) or mobile mode (touch, extra menus for accessibility).
The default value is auto
, which resolves to mobile
when building
for Android, and desktop
otherwise.
--prefix PREFIX
Controls the path prefix used when installing the app and - if built with
assets
set to systemwide
- when loading assets.
The default value is /usr/local
.
--strip
Controls whether the built executable should be stripped of debug symbols.
The default value is false
.
The option syntax is --option=value
.
Passing --option value
will result in an error.
For boolean options, the value can be omitted; it will be treated as true
.
The script generates a Makefile, so once you've configured everything to your liking (or just decided to go with the defaults), you can build the game through the usual method:
$ make all
If you set assets
to standalone
(the default value) during the
configuration phase, the game is ready to go. You can launch the executable
found at build/colorful
and enjoy yourself. Since the game stores
its configuration file and savestates inside the user's home directory,
it should continue to work even if moved to a non-writeable location.
If you're trying to package the game for Linux, go back and ensure you've
configured assets
to systemwide
, and specified the prefix
.
If everything checks out, you can go ahead and use the install
target
defined in the Makefile.
$ make install [DESTDIR=]
Android is a bit of a tough cookie.
You can find all the extra code (Java/JNI glue, manifests, etc.)
and build scripts inside the android/
directory.
Colorful is subject to two different licences.
Game code (found in the src/
directory) is available under the terms of the
GNU General Public License, version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
The full text of this licence is available in the LICENCE-CODE.txt file.
Anything not covered by the point above is made available under the terms of the "zlib with acknowledgement" licence. The full text of this licence is available in the LICENCE-ASSETS.txt file.
The code, as you can expect from a game made for a 48h compo, is quite crappy. Since this is a post-compo version, some cleanup has been made, functions have been moved, comments have been added. But it's still far from being state-of-the-art, so don't expect me to cover the damage if you hurt your eyes looking at it.
While getting the game to compile for Android was fairly easy, making it run in a sensible matter was a whole other issue. As such, the code is riddled with Android-specific quirks and workarounds. Some of these should be fairly obvious in what they do, but some are quite literally workarounds for behaviour I didn't bother to properly diagnose.
So anyway, feel free to read, observe, and despair. I mean, learn. Like, you know, I made a game and you didn't, so you can learn from me. Yeah.