Flappy Bird

This is my Flappy Bird attempt, which I created in the span of a half weekend, so there might be some rough edges.

The original plan is to build a genetic algorithm on top of this 🤖

But until then, we can enjoy the game.

Preview

Dependencies

Compiling

To compile the game, you will need Git, Go and SDL2 installed.

Follow the instructions for Git here.

Follow the instructions for Go here.

Follow the instructions for SDL2 here.

After that has been done, run the following command:

go get github.com/Opposition/flappy-bird

The generated binary should be in $GOPATH/bin.

Playing

To play the game, the client will need SDL2 installed on their machine. Follow the instructions here.

Note that the data folder needs to follow the binary:

flappy-bird/
├── data/
│   ├── background/
│       ├── background.png
│   ├── bird/
│       ├── bird_frame_1.png
│       ├── bird_frame_2.png
│       ├── bird_frame_3.png
│       ├── bird_frame_4.png
│       ├── bird_frame_5.png
│       ├── bird_frame_6.png
│       ├── bird_frame_7.png
│       ├── bird_frame_8.png
│       ├── bird_frame_9.png
│       ├── bird_frame_10.png
│   ├── font/
│       ├── font.ttf
│   ├── pipe/
│       ├── pipe.png
│   ├── sound/
│       ├── intro.ogg
└── .flappy-bird

Assets

All the images, fonts and songs used in this game are Creative Commons licensed. They are obtained from here.

This project is licensed under Apache v2 license. Read more in the LICENSE file.