SkyOfSteel is a work in progress game built on the Godot game engine with C#, currently builds with Godot Mono 3.2 Stable The current stable release can be downloaded at Itch.io
Contributions are welcome!
This seperate document explains why SkyOfSteel is open source and what that means for its development.
SkyOfSteel can be downloaded from Itch.io
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- A functioning installation of Godot Mono 3.2 Stable
- Clone the git repo (or download as zip and extract)
- Cd into the project root and run
nuget restore SkyOfSteel.sln(This will pull inNewtonsoft.JsonandOptional) - Open the Godot editor to the project and let it reimport all the assets then hit "Play" near the upper right corner (play icon)
- The editor will proceed to build and launch the project
SkyOfSteel is a sandbox building game set in the sky. Envisioned to be a game where one can build intricate factories and sprawling supply chains while engaging in a PVP turf war with your fellow server inhabitants. Enjoy highly fluid movement while destroying others with highly powered weaponry. Fight for technological superiority as you race through a deep tech tree constantly edging out your opponents.
While SkyOfSteel is remarkably far along in achieving this goal it is not yet there. At the moment there is a fully functional building system, chunk based world save and loading, highly stable multiplayer, Quake/Source engine style air strafing, and automatic bunny hopping. The current state of SkyOfSteel could be said to be more of a proof of concept of the further gameplay possibilities in the works.
All player input is routed through the binding system which depending
on the input will call the specified function while passing in a
float ranging between 0 and 1 (up to infinity in some cases such as
mouse movement). Key input pass in a 1 for keydown and a 0 for keyup
while analog inputs such as mouse motion pass in a 0 for no movement
on the specified axis and a number greater than 0 for motion on that
axis (the number is the amount of motion).
SkyOfSteel is built up of a number of singleton "libraries". Each one of these libraries deals with a portion of the game's actions and has a number of public static methods in order to be called from other libraries and classes.
Beyond these "libraries" the project directory is split up into pretty self explanatory folders
which are almost like "modules" in that they (under most conditions) contain everything related
to the folder name (ex: the UI folder has alls GUI scenes, script, and textures). Note that
these folders are not self contained but instead all source files are pretty much entwined though
the folder names are a good indication of where to look when trying to find the implementation
of a specific feature.
While SkyOfSteel is not open source because it needs contributions, there are still ways for you to help!
- Test and report bugs
- Play the game! If you see a bug, report it!
- Suggest new features
- Got a great idea? Awesome! Open an issue detailing what you think should be added/changed!
- Spread the word about SkyOfSteel
- All projects need good PR ;)
- Finally if you want you are welcome contribute to the codebase
- Open an issue detailing what you want to do and lets have a discussion. This will prevent work being done on something and then not being able to be merged.
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SkyOfSteel is licensed under the MIT license and utilizes Newtonsoft.Json and Optional which are both under the MIT license as well.