Videoventure is an exercise in using modern techniques to achieve old-school gaming satisfaction. The application framework is built around component database system that encourages a flexible, data-driven approach to game entities. It uses quite a few support libraries:

• TinyXML to read and write files
• FastDelegate for delegates and callbacks
• Boost for efficient type-safe memory pools
• GLFW for setup, window creation, and input handling
• BASS for sound and music
• OpenGL for rendering
• Box2D for physics and collision
• OGLConsole as inspiration for the in-game console.

A surprisingly modest number of components yield a disproportionate amount of time-wasting, pixel-smashing, arcade-style fun. Of course, the more components the merrier...

Videoventure is set in a world of video games long past. Your character is not a guy piloting a spaceship. Your character is not a spaceship. Your character is a video-game sprite of a spaceship.