Game · 2026
Leaving Earth
A personal digital implementation project built in C++ and SDL, with desktop builds and a browser version compiled with Emscripten.
About
What it is
This project started as a way to put a fairly calculation-heavy tabletop game on the computer. The digital version keeps the planning and decision making visible while letting the software handle setup, state tracking, and the repetitive bookkeeping.
It began as a desktop application and was later adapted to run in a browser as well, which required reworking parts of the build, asset loading, and audio pipeline for the web.
Leaving Earth is an unofficial fan-made software project. The original game and its intellectual property belong to their respective rights holders.
Screenshots
A closer look
I'm still adding screenshots and polishing this page. More coming soon.
Development
Making it
The desktop version is written directly in C++ with SDL. Porting it to the browser meant compiling the same application with Emscripten rather than rebuilding it in a web framework, which let the two versions continue sharing most of the code.
Get it
Downloads and web build
Play it in your browser, or download the desktop build for macOS or Windows.