boomboom

A bomberman clone which I originally released on the Ouya console in 2013. Like the Ouya console, this game was very unpopular.

Requires a gamepad to play, but supports Xbox, Playstation, and Wii gamepads.

Building From Source

As this is not an actively developed project, getting it to build may get trickier as time goes on. I rebuilt the project in December 2017 using Android studio 3.x, and it still builds as of October 2020 using Android Studio 4.0.1.

Some tips:

• Android Studio should more-or-less guide you through installing the necessary SDK version (27 / Android 8.1) and related tools. I didn't allow it to upgrade Android Gradle Plugin from version 3.0.1 as I vaguely recall compatibility issues with the game engine this is built on (libGDX).
• I had to install Java SE Development Kit 8.

Building a runnable jar:

• One way to build BoomBoom is to run BUILD_JAR.bat in the root directory. The output will be at desktop/build/libs/desktop-1.0.jar. There is also a file PlayBoomBoom.bat in the root which will run the jar file.
• (alternate method) In Android Studio, go to View > Tool Windows > Gradle. Expand boomboom > desktop > Tasks > other. Run the "dist" task.

Running within Android Studio:

• In Android Studio, go to View > Tool Windows > Gradle. Expand boomboom > desktop > Tasks > other. Right click the "run" task and choose the "Create" option. Then click OK. This will create a run configuration for you. You can then run or debug as needed.
• (alternate method) As instructed here, you can create a new run configuration manually. Create a run configuration of "Application" type named "DesktopLauncher", and set the Main class to com.brian.boomboom.desktop.DesktopLauncher, Working directory to the boomboom/android/assets directory, and Use classpath of module desktop.