master-of-magic

README

Master of Magic clone

• Source language: golang, https://go.dev/
• Graphics library: ebiten, https://ebitengine.org/
• Master of Magic wiki: https://masterofmagic.fandom.com/

Online demo

Play a wasm build of this game https://kazzmir.itch.io/magic

Also try the combat simulator, which lets you test different battle situations https://kazzmir.itch.io/magic-combat-simulator

Build:

Extra packages needed for ebiten https://ebitengine.org/en/documents/install.html

$ go mod tidy
$ go build -o magic ./game/magic

or

$ make

Run:

Put the master of magic lbx files in one of the following places

• in the same directory as the game executable
• in any subdirectory of the directory the game executable is in
• in a zip file in the same directory as the game executable
• in a zip file in any subdirectory of the directory the game executable is in
• in a zip file and replace data/data/data.zip, then rebuild the game. This embeds the data into the executable. You can also put the unzipped lbx files in data/data/

Or use the -data <path> command line option to magic to specify either a directory that contains the lbx files or the <path> can be a zip file of the lbx files.

$ ./magic

or to run without building first

$ go run ./game/magic

Music:

To hear the music you must have a midi synthesizer running separately. On linux and macos you can use fluidsynth. Simply run fluidsynth on its own, and magic will automatically connect to it.

Screenshots:

Directory layout:

• game/ Contains go code that implements the game functionality
• lib/ Supporting code used to load data/fonts
• util/ Extra utility programs for development purposes (sprite viewer, font viewer, etc)
• data/ Put a zip file with the game data to embed the data in the final binary
• test/ Test programs for executing small pieces of functionality at a time