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bladecoder / bladecoder-adventure-engine

Classic point and click adventure game engine and editor
Apache License 2.0
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Tutorial/Guide? #21

Open Ryogaag opened 9 years ago

Ryogaag commented 9 years ago

Hi! I'm very interested in this engine. Is there a guide or some tutorial that i can follow? Thanks!

bladecoder commented 9 years ago

Hi,

Unfortunately, I have not enough time to create a good documentation for the engine. The best option to learn how to use the engine is to download the tests and play with them. The 'venus' test project is a complete game.

I started to document the engine in the github wiki ( https://github.com/bladecoder/bladecoder-adventure-engine/wiki) but it needs a lot of work (any help will be appreciated).

There are also some youtube videos showing the engine features. Some of them outdated. Check out my channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRFK2_qC6hEGcYA2Ngd6_dw

Regards,

Rafael.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Ryogaag notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi! I'm very interested in this engine. Is there a guide or some tutorial that i can follow? Thanks!

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Ryogaag commented 9 years ago

Thanks, I'll try my best to understand this engine from the tests. Just one question, i'm not very skilled with gradle (i usually let the eclipse plugin do all the work) what is the correct way to build and run the editor? I tried importing it in eclipse with gradle but it gives me problems with javafx (he doesn't find it) thanks

EDIT: nevermind i figured it out, it was very simple, i'm dumb XD

bladecoder commented 9 years ago

Hi Ryogaag,

You can build the editor with gradle from command line or from eclipse using the gradle plugin.

The latest editor release ready to run can be downloaded from the git releases page:

https://github.com/bladecoder/bladecoder-adventure-engine/releases/download/v0.9.1/adventure-editor-0.9.1.zip

I usually generate a release from command line with this sentence:

./gradlew distZip

JavaFX is necessary for the editor to show the File Dialog. JavaFX comes with the Oracle VM by default but if you are using the OpenJDK you have to install apart. In Ubuntu for example is just with this sentence:

$ sudo apt-get install openjfx

Regards,

Rafael.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ryogaag notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks, I'll try my best to understand this engine from the tests. Just one question, i'm not very skilled with gradle (i usually let the eclipse plugin do all the work) what is the correct way to build and run the editor? I tried importing it in eclipse with gradle but it gives me problems with javafx (he doesn't find it) thanks

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bladecoder commented 9 years ago

I attach a screenshot from the Eclipse used to develop the Engine. I have the engine and all the tests imported with the gradle plugin.

blade_engine_eclipse

Ryogaag commented 9 years ago

Thanks! I'll try to fix the javaFX problem, it's not a problem with my instalation of java (i use the official release not the openjdk) looking on the internet it appears to be a problem with eclipse.

bladecoder commented 8 years ago

A detailed review has been published by the Game From Scratch site:

http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/11/30/A-Closer-Look-At-The-Bladecoder-Adventure-Engine.aspx

Ryogaag commented 8 years ago

thank you! this will be very helpful, but i started using it and i saw for myself that this editor is very simple and well made. i had no trouble figuring out how it works. You really did a great job. Since i'm here i was wondering if multilanguage is already implemented and how it works in your editor. Thanks

bladecoder commented 8 years ago

Multilanguage is fully implemented. You can look at the 'venus' project that is translated in English and Spanish.

For each chapter, you have a .properties file with all the texts in the model folder inside assets. The editor automatically puts all the texs there.

For example, for a chapter named 'chapter1', if you write all texts in English, you will have the files:

model/chapter1.chapter.json model/chapter1.properties <- automatically managed by the editor. All english texts

To translate the game to spanish you create the next file:

model/chapter1_es.properties

This file can be created copying the English file and then you have to translate all texts in this file to Spanish.

Thats all.

Ryogaag commented 8 years ago

Thanks this is great!

bladecoder commented 8 years ago

I created a forum to create a community around the engine. A place where users can ask for support, features, share ideas, etc...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bladecoder-adventure-engine

jdiperla commented 8 years ago

Might want to add that link to the readme. Also, a more detailed tutorial on making a lucasarts gui would be great.