A small Arkanoid-style brick breaker game written in modern C++17 using SFML.
The project demonstrates scene management, resource handling, basic collision detection, and highscore persistence, with a clean modular architecture.

Arkanoid is built around a scene-based architecture:

• Scenes: Opening, Game, Highscores
• Scene Manager: switches scenes and forwards updates/render calls
• Level Implementation: LevelOne (paddle, ball, bricks, collisions)
• Subsystems:
  • ResourceManager for textures/fonts
  • ScoreManager for score/lives
  • HighscoreManager for load/save of highscores
  • CollisionDetector for simple bounding-box overlap
• Sandbox Demo: particle/box simulation for testing

- inc/ →         Public headers (scenes, game objects, managers, utilities)
- src/ →         Implementation (.cpp) files
- resources/ →   Assets (fonts, images, highscores file)
- tests/ →       Small test apps (main game, box/particles demo) + Makefiles

• SFML (Graphics, Window, System modules)
• C++17-capable compiler
• On Windows:
  • Visual Studio (link SFML), or
  • MSYS/MinGW using provided Makefiles in /tests

Ensure resources/ contains:

• resources/fonts/ (e.g. OpenSans-VariableFont_wdth,wght.ttf, ARCADECLASSIC.ttf)
• resources/images/ (e.g. MainMenu.png, Level.png, Highscores.png, Ball.png)
• resources/top10.dat (created if missing)

cd tests/game
make
./game.exe

• Main game: tests/game/game

• Scene / SceneManager

  • Scene: abstract base (init, render, handle_event, update)
  • SceneManager: registers scenes, manages active scene

• ResourceManager

  • Loads fonts & textures on startup
  • Throws on missing resource

• GameScene

  • Owns LevelOne, ScoreManager, HighscoreManager
  • Handles pause/game over/win prompts, user input, and highscores

• LevelOne

  • Encapsulates Paddle, Ball, and Bricks
  • Updates positions, handles collisions, removes bricks, awards points

• HighscoreManager

  • Stores scores in binary file resources/top10.dat
  • Keeps sorted top-10 with tie-breaking by recency

• Ball: movement, wall bounce, paddle stick/launch
• Paddle: player movement with bounds check
• Brick: simple destructible objects

• Displayer: simple text rendering wrapper
• CollisionDetector: bounding box intersection checks
• ScoreManager: tracks lives and score

• Highscores saved in resources/top10.dat as fixed binary struct: bash struct HighscoreEntry { char name[32]; uint32_t score; uint64_t time_ms; };

• Assets (images, fonts) loaded from resources/ on startup.