ActionFPS Game

Game client and server for ActionFPS

See: ActionFPS Tutorial · Development Guide · Contributor Guide

Quickstart

You have two choices:

1. Download a pre-built binary.
2. Run from sources.

Download

You have two download choices:

• Directly from automatically built development release.
• Through ActionFPS Play page.

Run from source

Windows

1. Install Windows Visual C++ Studio Express 2010
2. Open source/vcpp/cube.vcxproj and build "Release"
3. Install ActionFPS & copy packages directory from there into here. This is because we're separating media from code.
4. Launch actionfps_release.bat

Linux

On Ubuntu or the like:

$ sudo apt-get install clang make automake libsdl1.2-dev libogg-dev \
  libsdl-image1.2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libopenal-dev libvorbis-dev openssl libssl-dev -y
$ (cd source/src && make install)
$ ./install-packages.sh
$ ./actionfps.sh

Mac

Install XCode and brew.

$ brew install openssl
$ ./install-packages.sh
$ (cd source/xcode && make)
$ open source/xcode/build/Release/actionfps.dmg

Connect to a test server

This server is synchronised with the master branch.

In the game, type: /connect woop.ac 7654 or open link actionfps://woop.ac:7654 in your browser.

Media

Media in packages directory is separated from the repository. AssaultCube packages are download at installation time on Windows and Linux.

This brings several benefits:

• Licences are now clearly separated - the codebase can stay zlib.
• Will enforce a decoupled architecture so that game releases do not depend on media releases and force us to make sane choices.
• Separation of concerns.
• Smaller downloads and easier distribution.
• Smaller repository.

Goal would be download the media not at installation time, but at runtime. This would enable:

• Versioning, repositories, etc, of individual media for improved sharing. It would be possible, for example, for people to manage the lifecycle of their maps and media. We would be able to fetch stuff
• Adding new media without having to re-release the game.
• Provide extremely fast media downloads by using CDN or BitTorrent (yes this is possible!).