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Snowling

A simple bowling game with a festive twist.

How to play

The premise is simple; you must launch the snowball at the pins and knock them down, seems easy right? Well, your snowball won't knock any pins down unless you roll over some ice first to harden it up. There are three obstacles in the game:

• Ice (color: Aqua) - Hardens your snowball to pack a heavier punch on the pins.
• Boost (color: Purple) - Increases the speed of your snowball to blow a heavier punch on the pins.
• Lava (color: Red) - Melts your snowball; instant penalty.

It's best to play with your keyboard but Joystick is also supported.

Mouse Bindings:

• LEFT MOUSE - Random bowl.

Key Bindings:

• TAB/SPACE + 0-9 - Select launch speed.
• 0-9 - Launch ball at one of 10 different angles, 5-1 for left-hand launches and 6-0 for right-hand launches.
• R/LSHIFT - Launch ball at a random angle and speed.
• Left, Right, Up, Down - Launch ball at four quick selection angles and speeds.

Joypad Bindings:

• Stick 1 - Left to Right - Launch Angle
• Stick 1 - Up and Down - Launch Speed
• Button 1 - Launch
• Button 2 - Random Launch

I tend to just use UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, and R when I play, but if you are competitive you will want to get accustomed to using SPACE + 0-9 & 0-9.

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Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN6lRq4bKWk

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Simplified WebGL / Mobile version (one click/tap random bowl only)

https://mrbid.github.io/snowling

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Snapcraft / Software Center

https://snapcraft.io/snowling

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AppImage

https://github.com/mrbid/Snowling/raw/main/Snowling-x86_64.AppImage

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[x86_64] Linux Binary (Ubuntu 21.10)

https://github.com/mrbid/Snowling/raw/main/snowling

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[ARM64] Linux Binary (Raspbian 10)

https://github.com/mrbid/Snowling/raw/main/snowling_arm

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Windows Binary

https://github.com/mrbid/Snowling/raw/main/snowling.exe
https://github.com/mrbid/Snowling/raw/main/glfw3.dll

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Prerequisites

sudo apt install libglfw3 libglfw3-dev upx-ucl gcc-mingw-w64-i686-win32

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Compile & Install

gcc main.c glad_gl.c -Ofast -lglfw -lm -o snowling
sudo cp snowling /usr/bin/snowling

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Make & Install

make
sudo make install /usr/bin

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Debug

clang -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=address -g main.c glad_gl.c -Ofast -lglfw -lm -o snowling

clang -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=undefined -g main.c glad_gl.c -Ofast -lglfw -lm -o snowling

valgrind snowling

strace snowling

#define LEAK_CHECK
#define LEAK_CHECK_BRUTE
#define AUTOMATE

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Footnotes

Attributions

https://unsplash.com/photos/N_MXyBUV5hU
http://www.forrestwalter.com/icons/