prj tiny

A small first-person sword combat game built with raylib. Fight a single enemy in a starlit arena. Built as a learning/prototype project.

~features

• First-person melee combat — left-click to swing your sword
• Procedural audio — sword swings, footsteps, and ambient drone are all generated in code (no audio files needed)
• Enemy AI — the enemy auto-attacks on a randomized timer and turns to face you
• Player death & respawn — die and you respawn after 2 seconds
• Title screen + pause menu — mouse-driven UI with fade transitions
• Twinkling starfield — 200 stars with per-star phase animation
• Streaming background music — drop in your own music.ogg

~controls

~requirements

• raylib (built with audio + OGG/Vorbis support)
• A C compiler (gcc/clang)
• music.ogg (optional — place next to the binary)

~build

gcc tiny.c -o tiny -lraylib -lm -lGL -lpthread -ldl -lrt -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -logg

For a static build (recommended for distribution):

gcc tiny.c -o tiny -Wl,-Bstatic -lraylib -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -logg \
  -Wl,-Bdynamic -lGL -lm -lpthread -ldl -lrt

~run

./tiny

music.ogg is loaded relative to your working directory. Place it next to the binary if you want background music. The game runs fine without it.

~how it works

The game is a single C file (~625 lines) with no external assets except an optional music file:

• Graphics: raylib's 3D immediate-mode API (DrawCube, DrawCylinderEx, etc.) for the world + sword models, 2D overlay for HUD/menus
• Audio: sounds are synthesized at runtime into Wave structs and loaded via LoadSoundFromWave — no .wav files needed
• Combat: sword swings are time-based with damage applied at the swing midpoint, gated by a damage_dealt flag to prevent multi-hit
• Camera: raylib's built-in CAMERA_FIRST_PERSON mode

~license

Trinity License