Flight Simulator: Flappy Bird is a parody of the popular mobile game, "Flappy Bird", and it uses the OpenGL library (which comes included in the Cinder framework) that provides graphics capabilities. This game was made as light joke in reference to the numerous references my professor made to his work with flight simulators during lecture.
As mentioned before, this game utilizes the Cinder framework, and you can download the latest version for your platform here. Furthermore, you must have CLion in order to compile this program otherwise linking the Cinder framework will not be as straightforward. Here is a link to download CLion for your respective platform.
After downloading Cinder (v0.9.2 is the current latest version), extract it into a folder called ~/Cinder. From here open ~/Cinder in CLion and build it once to create libcinder. Then create a new directory in ~/Cinder which can be named flappy-bird and clone this repository to that location. Finally, open flight-simulatory-flappybird in CLion, set the target to cinder-myapp and run the program.
For further reference, here and here are basic tutorials on setting up Cinder in CLion.
This game is essentially played the same way as normal "Flappy Bird" where you can move the bird up using the Space or Up button. The goal of the game is to avoid the green pipes and traverse through the cave and points are obtained with each successive, passed pipe. The game ends when the "bird" hits a pipe leading the user to a screen which depicts their score.
This project utilized the library, OpenGL for its simple graphics and audio capabilities. Both the background and the "bird" icon itself where implemented using functions from this library and this project overall shows how helpful this library was in drawing pictures and playing sounds for the game. Here is a link for additional reference to the library.
Author: Amey Venkatanarayan - [email protected]