This is a quick and dirty fork and port of the Another World Bytecode Interpreter with SDL2, targeting Linux and WASM with Emscripten.

• Play Another World in your browser

In order to build the Linux port, you must install the build toolchain, the SDL2 and the zlib libraries.

Under Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint, ...):

apt-get install build-essential libsdl2-dev zlib1g-dev

The required game data files must be copied into the src/assets directory.

cd src
make -f Makefile.linux
./another-world.bin

You can also run the provided build script:

./build.sh linux

In order to build the WASM port, You must install the Emscripten toolchain.

• Download and install

cd src
make -f Makefile.wasm
emrun ./another-world.html

You can also run the provided build script:

./build.sh wasm

• --datapath=PATH location of the game assets (default ./assets)
• --savepath=PATH location of the game states (default ./assets)

• Up, Down, Left, Right move
• Space or Enter run or fire
• Tab change the window size
• c enter a code to jump at a specific level
• p pause the game
• Ctrl l load game state
• Ctrl s save game state
• Ctrl + next game state slot
• Ctrl - prev game state slot
• Ctrl x exit the game
• Escape exit the game

Eric Chahi's website with some interesting informations:

• https://www.anotherworld.fr/another_world.htm

Grégory Montoir's reimplementation of the game engine:

• https://github.com/cyxx/rawgl

Fabien Sanglard's fork cleaned up with legibility and readability in mind:

• https://github.com/fabiensanglard/Another-World-Bytecode-Interpreter

You can also find below some great articles written by Fabien Sanglard about the architecture and ports of Another World:

• Another World Code Review
• The polygons of Another World
• The polygons of Another World: Amiga
• The polygons of Another World: Atari ST
• The polygons of Another World: IBM PC
• The polygons of Another World: Sega Genesis
• The polygons of Another World: SNES
• The polygons of Another World: GBA
• The polygons of Another World: Jaguar

Thanks to:

• Eric Chahi, obviously, who made this fantastic game and released it in 1991.
• Gregory Montoir, who reversed the original virtual machine and wrote a full modern implementation.
• Fabien Sanglard, who improved the reimplementation and wrote blog posts about this clever architecture.

The source code is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License 2.0.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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Please do not distribute the original data files with this project.