Seagull Game

A long time ago, the first versions of Seagull Game were a prototype, just enough of a workload to serve as an example while on my AWS Solutions Architect apprenticeship. But with the economic crash of 2025 came a loss of my job and a lot of excess free time, so I'm making this into a real deal game that you can play, in an attempt to preserve my rapidly dwindling sanity.

Build

Prerequisites

• Python (>= 3.11 oughta do it)
• TCL/Tk (for tkinter Python module, used by PyInstaller splash screen)
• A working Rust toolchain, incl. cargo, to build Rant
• rsync (or rclone in Windows)
• On Linux, tar and zstd are used to cache intermediate build steps into archives. zip is also used to generate .pak files.

Linux

Simply run ./build-desktop.sh, followed by ./build-pak.sh to build seagull.pak.

Windows

A script is in progess to automate this, but is not yet fully ready. Here's the broad strokes routine:

• Install Python from python.org. Non standard variants such as ActivePython are not supported.
• Install rclone and Rust. For Rust, scroll down to the bottom of the first table: you probably want x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, as an MSI file.
• Create a folder called "build" wherever you checked out this repository, and open a PowerShell terminal there.
• python -m venv pyvenv, then Scripts\activate.ps1