Deceptus Engine

A C++23/lua-based platformer game engine
It utilizes Box2D for game physics, SFML for rendering, and SDL for game controller support.

Credits

What	Who
Artwork	dstar
Code	mueslee (Matthias Varnholt)

How to Build

As the engine uses some C++23 code, you need a recent compiler, i.e.

• gcc >= 13
• Clang >= 15
• MSVC >= 2022

Linux

mkdir deceptus_engine-build
cd deceptus_engine-build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../deceptus_engine
cmake --build .

Windows

mkdir deceptus_engine-build
cd deceptus_engine-build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..\deceptus_engine
cmake --build .

MacOS

Building

brew install fmt
brew install sfml
brew install sdl2
brew install lua
mkdir deceptus_engine-build
cd deceptus_engine-build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../deceptus_engine
cmake --build .

Running

export PATH="$(brew --prefix fmt)/include:$PATH"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix fmt)/lib:$PATH"

export PATH="$(brew --prefix sfml)/include:$PATH"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix sfml)/lib:$PATH"

export PATH="$(brew --prefix sdl2)/include:$PATH"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix sdl2)/lib:$PATH"

export PATH="$(brew --prefix lua)/include:$PATH"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix lua)/lib:$PATH"

./deceptus

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