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MrEliptik / game_launcher

A simple game launcher made with Godot for developers to showcase their games
MIT License
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Display more information about the game #7

Closed MrEliptik closed 1 week ago

MrEliptik commented 5 months ago

The current game description is fairly limited and it would be cool to include more information, such as release date, platform, player count, etc.. We need to move to an ini or json file for that and the UI needs to be updated

naturally-intelligent commented 4 months ago

I'm going to be doing something similar to this soon, including probably some kind of overhaul to the UI.

I prefer INI files because they are easier to edit by hand

MrEliptik commented 4 months ago

INI might be better especially for non developer you're right. Don't hesitate to share your redesign if you want to!

naturally-intelligent commented 4 months ago

Here is a sample config file proposal:

[GAME]
title = "Sample Game Title"
executable = "Chore 4.exe"
capsule = "capsule.png"
background = "bg.png"
description = "Here is a text blurb. \n\n Or use description.txt."
category = ["Tools", "Tests"]
notice = "Coming Soon"
arguments = "--fullscreen --keyboard"

[SETTINGS]
order = 1
visible = true
available = true
pinned = false

[ATTRIBUTES]
singleplayer = false
multiplayer = true
coop = true
pvp = true

The thought here is that the standard executable, capsule, background, and description will be loaded by file. Then, it will also look for a config file. If that is found, any values in the config file will be used instead. I wanted to have customizable Title and more. And maybe there are more than one EXE or certain images that are getting replaced and it would be annoying to keep renaming them "capsule.png" whenever you update. So the config file per game will let this be customized. A bunch of other things here are just ideas for future settings. And if there are a lot of games, to eventually have a category sort at the top.

I have a working version of the configs in my repo, but I'm going to put a lot more work into it for a gamejam coming up end of this month. So I'll come back after that is over with what may be an almost unrecognizable version of your launcher :D

MrEliptik commented 1 week ago

Implemented with https://github.com/MrEliptik/game_launcher/commit/9b554170736a66fff5fb7897141dbd3023906417 example config file can be found here: https://github.com/MrEliptik/game_launcher/blob/main/games/config_template.ini