🧱 HuskyHawks Breakout Game

A classic Breakout-style arcade game built in C++ using SFML and CMake. This game features neon retro graphics, smooth animations, and multiple screens including a title with menu, gameplay controls, credits and quit.

This project recreates the retro brick-breaker experience where the player controls a paddle to bounce a ball and destroy bricks. The objective is to clear all bricks without letting the ball fall below the paddle.

🎮 Gameplay

• Move the paddle left and right (with the left and right arrow keys) to keep the ball in play.
• The ball bounces off walls, the paddle, and bricks.
• Bricks disappear when hit.
• The player wins when all bricks are destroyed.
• The player loses when the ball falls below the paddle.

✨ Features

• Title screen with glow effects and neon accents.
• Menu with Play, Control, Credits, and Quit options.
• Ball and paddle movement with collision detection.
• Smooth frame movement using deltaTime.

🕹️ Controls

In Menu:

• 'Up' / 'Down' arrows: Move Selection
• 'Enter' key: Select Menu Option

During Gameplay:

• 'Left' arrow: Moves paddle to the left
• 'Right' arrow: Moves paddle to the right
• Escape Key to Pause and Unpause the Game

💻 Tech Stack

• Language: C++ (C++17)
• Graphics Library: SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library)
• Build System: CMake
• Design Approach: Object-Oriented Programming

⚙️ Requirements

Before building the project, ensure you have:

• A C++17 (or higher) compatible compiler (g++, clang++, etc.)
• CMake (3.16 or newer recommended)
• SFML installed on your system (2.5+)

📦 Installing SFML

This project requires SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library) and CMake to compile and run.

macOS

Follow the official installation instructions:

• CMake: https://cmake.org/download/
• SFML: https://www.sfml-dev.org/download.php

Alternatively, if you use Homebrew:

brew install sfml cmake

Ubuntu / Linux

Update packages and install dependencies:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libsfml-dev cmake

Windows

1. Download CMake: https://cmake.org/download/

2. Download SFML: https://www.sfml-dev.org/download.php

3. Install CMake and make sure "Add CMake to PATH" is selected.

4. Extract the SFML folder and ensure CMake can locate it when building the project.

🔨Building the Project

From the root directory of the repository:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

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🚀 Running the Game

After building the project, go to the build directory:

cd build

List the files to find the generated executable:

ls

Run the executable shown in the output. For example:

./main

Note that this is unique to your machine, so we use CMake to make builds of the same program in different environments.

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👥 Team

• Tanisha Thakare
• Kari Severud
• Kaleb Fikadu
• Mitesh Samal
• David Hochberg
• Miles Vollmer

🎉 Acknowledgements

Special thanks to SFML for providing the graphics library used to build this game.