AIngine

The 2D Game Engine AIngine offers developers an extensive editor and an AI module based on the eXtended Classifier System (XCS). The game engine was developed as a project at the University of Würzburg in the Games Engineering Bsc. program.

Building with CMake

To build with CMake enable the options GLFW_INSTALL, SPDLOG_INSTALL, JSON_INSTALL. Also set the the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to your desired install directory.

Installing AIngine

Make sure cmake has been added to PATH (User PATH seems not be sufficient)

Either use the installer provided inside the binaries.zip or install manually: (automatic execution of launcher after installation may fail, bug)

• Inside the AIngine solution build the target INSTALL

After installing:

• Execute launcher/Launcher.exe inside your install dir
• Click "Add existing project" inside the project launcher
• Select a .project.in file (one can be found at /code/Projects/CrappyBird)
• Open the project by selecting it and clicking "Open" inside the project launcher
• Either build the target and execute the executable or simply run in debug mode inside Visual Studio
• Load a scene via the menubar or toolbar

Building a project with the Editor

To build an exectable from your project inside the Editor:

• Make sure at least one scene will be build (you can add scenes under the menuitem Build/BuildScenes)
• Execute the menuitem Build/Build and select your output folder
• The Visual Studio solution needs to be rebuild after building

Scripting

Scripts can be added inside the editor via the menuitem Scripts. After adding/removing a script the editor needs to be restarted manually.

Running example games

• Either run the installer to install the engine or do it manually as described here
• Make sure cmake has been added to PATH (User PATH seems not be sufficient)
• After building the AIngine project with CMake build the target INSTALL. The Engine will be installed into CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
• From the install dir, run launcher/Launcher.exe
• Click "Add existing project" and select a .project.in file ( can be found at "root/code/Projects/CrappyBird")
• The project is now listed in the project launcher, use the "Open" button to open it
• Either build the target and run the executable or simply run in debug mode inside visual studio