Alpha is a multi-platform game engine which currently supports Windows and Linux systems. The purpose of Alpha is to learn, plain and simple. I wanted to take what i've already learned, iterate over it, and apply it to a new project.

• All

• CMake 2.6+
• Git
• Mercurial

• Windows

• DirectX 11.1
• DXSDK June 2010 (Required for SDL2 Audio)

• Linux

• OpenGL 3.3+
• X11
• GLEW
• GLFW
• GLUT
• GCC 4.5+ / Clang 3.1+

Alpha uses CMake as its build system, which allows for easy cross-platform build support without having to manage the various solutions, projects, or make files on a per system basis. The build system has been tested with modern Visual Studio releases (11+) and with Unix Makefiles in linux. While others may work, they have not been tested.

Before building, all dependencies and initialization must be complete. Once all requirements listed above are meet on your system, run the setup script; on linux run setup.sh, and on windows run setup.bat.

The setup script will initialize the submodules for the project and update them. Then it will attempt to use mercurial to pull the SDL2 sources into the 3rdParty directory. Obviously, mercurial must be install on your system at this point for it to be successful.

1. sh setup.sh -or- setup.bat

1. Set Source Directory to the root alpha directory.
2. Set Build Directory to the target output, usually /build inside alpha root.
3. Configure, select target build system (Visual Studio, Unix Makefiles, etc.)
4. Generate.

Build projects/solutions should now have been created in the build folder specified.

Copyright 2014-2015 Jason R. Wendlandt

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