Go port of the Minecraft One Week Challenge
Purely for my own amusement I ported the first day of the Minecraft One Week Challenge to Go. This is just to the point of a single grass textured quad that you can look at from various angles using the mouse and the W,A,S,D keys. Use ESC to exit the window.
The code is a pretty close one-to-one port of the original C++ so it lacks some Go idioms. I've
tried to keep filenames aligned with the original C++ codebase but placed everything into a single
package for simplicity. There are some differences between glfw used here and sfml used in the
original, most noticeably in keyboard and mouse handling. There are Go bindings for sfml but I'm
more familiar with glfw so chose to work with that instead.
The original code in this repository is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, the same as the original MineCraft One Week Challenge.
This was a fun afternoon project but I may continue to port the remaining days if I feel motivated enough.
Required Go packages are vendored for convenience but to build it you'll need some C libraries
dependent on your OS. See more details at https://github.com/go-gl/gl
and https://github.com/go-gl/glfw. On Debian-based Linux systems it
might be enough to install the libgl1-mesa-dev and xorg-dev packages along with gcc. I have
not tested on other operating systems.
Ensure you have a recent working Go installtion. Using go get should check out the code and build the latest version so you can run it straight off:
go get github.com/iand/mconeweek
mconeweek
Alternatively you can check it out into your GOPATH manually and build it with:
go install github.com/iand/mconeweek