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

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.zip, then rebuild the game. This embeds the data into the executable

$ ./magic

or to run without building first

$ go run ./game/magic

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