Run Justin is a small 2D action runner built with C++ and SFML. Justin runs through a cemetery, jumps over obstacles and fights zombies. The longer a run lasts, the faster the game becomes. The goal is to survive and defeat as many enemies as possible.
| Gameplay | Game over |
|---|---|
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The ready-to-play Windows version is available on the Releases page.
Download Run-Justin-Windows-x64.zip, extract it and run Run-Justin.exe. Visual Studio is not required.
The game is built for Windows 10/11 x64. If a Microsoft runtime DLL is missing, the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable x64 is required.
| Action | Control |
|---|---|
| Start / menu buttons | Left mouse button |
| Jump | Space |
| Attack | Left mouse button |
| Pause / resume | Esc |
- Player and enemy animations
- Jumping, melee attacks and collision handling
- Enemy spawning and respawning
- Kill counter and game-over statistics
- Title, loading, pause and game-over screens
- Increasing game speed over time
- Scrolling platforms and a parallax background
- Background music and sound effects
- TMX level data loading with TinyXML
- C++17
- SFML 2.6.1
- TinyXML
- Visual Studio 2022
The project was developed in Visual Studio 2022. A local build requires an x64 C++ project with the repository source files (including lib/*.cpp and Run-Justin.rc), C++17 enabled, and the SFML include and lib directories configured.
The Release configuration uses:
sfml-main.lib
sfml-graphics.lib
sfml-window.lib
sfml-audio.lib
sfml-system.lib
The subsystem is set to Windows (/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS). The SFML release DLL files and openal32.dll must be placed next to the executable.
The game began as an SFML learning project and was gradually expanded with additional gameplay systems, enemies, animations, audio, menus, pause handling and a kill counter. The current Windows build is playable from the title screen through game over.
The repository focuses on programming and game integration. Visual and audio assets are external resources and are not presented as original artwork.