Leecho

Retro SFML Platformer (Beta 0.02)

A nostalgic window into my early programming days. This is a classic 2D side-scrolling platformer built with C++ and the SFML library circa 2017. It features a hardcoded tilemap, custom sprite sheet animations, collision handling, and a vintage main menu.

📜 Backstory

This repository contains one of my very first codebases written 9 years ago. Looking back, it perfectly captures the raw excitement of early game development: managing delta time manually, dealing with hardcoded magic numbers, and implementing structural logic within single files. It stands as a baseline milestone of where my software engineering journey began.

🛠️ Tech Stack & Features

• Language: C++
• Graphics Library: SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library)
• Architecture: Monolithic single-file project with a primitive player class.
• Tilemap System: An ASCII-based custom grid (TileMap[20][160]) parsing walls (w) and boundaries (B).
• Camera Movement: A continuous horizontal and vertical camera lerp based on offsetX and offsetY tracking the player's coordinates.

🎮 Gameplay & Controls

You control a custom character (using Sonic sprite-sheet layouts) moving through a retro map.

• Left / Right Arrow Keys: Move horizontally (flips the sprite orientation dynamically via negative texture rectangle bounds).
• Up Arrow Key: Jump (enabled only when the onGround structural check is verified).

🗂️ Project Structure Quirks (A Trip Down Memory Lane)

• The "Wild" Menu Logic: Includes an explicit screen-clear color comment (фон ебанутого меню) and hardcoded bounding boxes for custom UI mouse-hover events.
• Hardcoded Collision Matrix: A nested double loop checks bounding boxes against specific ASCII characters (B, w, q, e, r) scaled by a hardcoded factor of 32.
• Framerate-Independent Movement: Early attempts at delta-time scaling using clock.getElapsedTime().asMicroseconds() / 300.

🚀 How It Ran

To compile and run this artifact, you needed the SFML development binaries linked to your compiler environment (e.g., Visual Studio or GCC).

# Compilation example via g++
g++ -c Code.cpp
g++ Code.o -o sfml-app -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-window -lsfml-system

Required Assets The game expected the following local directory setup to fetch texture sheets:

image/sonic.png — Player animation frames (Walk, Idle, Jump).

image/map.png — Environment tileset.

image/newgame.png, image/exit.png, image/k.png — Main menu UI components.

"Keep moving forward, but never forget the code that compiled your foundations."