Antkeeper is an open-source 3D ant colony simulation game currently in development for Windows and Linux. Antkeeper is the passion project of solo indie game developer and myrmecophile C. J. Howard.

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• Building
  • Windows
• Testing
• Documentation
• Contributing
• Authors
• License

Requirements:

• Git
• CMake>=3.27
• Build Tools for Visual Studio>=2022
• Python>=3.11.0
• Jinja2>=2.7,<4.0

Configure and build a Windows 64-bit release:

git clone https://github.com/antkeeper/antkeeper-source.git && cd antkeeper-source
cmake --preset windows-x64
cmake --build --preset windows-x64-release

Configure and build with -DANTKEEPER_TEST=ON, then run the following command to perform tests for a Windows 64-bit release:

ctest --test-dir build\windows-x64 -C Release

Source code documentation can be generated with Doxygen. Graphviz can optionally be used to generate dependency graphs.

The following commands configure and build the source code documentation:

cmake --preset windows-x64 -DANTKEEPER_BUILD_DOCS=ON
cmake --build --preset windows-x64-release --target docs

Generated HTML documentation will be located at build/<platform>/docs/doxygen/html/index.html.

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

See the contribution guide for more details on how to contribute.

• C. J. Howard

• Antkeeper source code is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later.
• Antkeeper translations are licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.
• Antkeeper game data is proprietary.