Growing Pains
A downloadable game for Windows
You are a tumor. An aberration in the human body. But not even your peers accept you. For you are much more radical. And your ideas must spread.
Enact your influence on this world by growing and shrinking the environment around you. Progress to short, precise, puzzle-ish levels to reach your goal of spreading further.
Controls:
WASD/Arrow Keys for movement
Q/E to shrink and grow
Credits:
Art, design, programming: Menno Markus
Music thanks to Semion Krivenko-Adamov
About:
This project was created for the Acerola Jam 0. As a personal goal I challenged myself to write the engine behind the game during the Jam. Nothing but the standard Windows libraries and the C-standard libraries. I have included the full source code to check for yourself, but be warned, here be dragons!
My biggest regret is not planning in more time to create levels. (Who would have guest learning DirectX11 and XAudio2 would take so much time!? \s) But hopefully people will enjoy the short experience.
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Install instructions
Game:
Simply run the executable from anywhere on your Windows PC.
Windows might falsely flag the release version of the game as a virus. If you are concerned about this you can download 'Growing_Pains_Debug.exe' which seems to pass fine. If you want to be extra safe, you can run either through a tool like https://www.virustotal.com/
Source code:
Ensure you have a version of MSVC (Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler) installed. Run the build.bat file from the source directory. The executable will be created in the output folder. This should compile with any recent version of the compiler but I have only tested VS2019 and VS2022.
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