Jack the Explorer

Intro

Jack the Explorer is a 2D platformer game about an adventurer seeking to gather the jewels scattered across dangerous realms.

This readme file outlines installation and usage instructions, as well as details of development and implementation.

Usage

The following packages must be installed:

• python (version >3.10.12)
• virtualenv (or python3-venv)
• GNU make

First install the required libraries:

make install

Run the game from the terminal with the command:

make run

To build an executable for windows run the exec.bat script.

To build an executable for linux run the run.bash script.

Building the static linked executable requires Python and the required libraries to be already installed on the machine.

Technologies used

The game is written in Python using several libraries:

• Pygame
• Pymunk
• PyTMX
• ParticlePy

In addition, the open source program Tiled was used to design the maps which are imported in the game using PyTMX.