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kesiev / rewtro

Papercraft videogame cartridges you can print and pirate with a copy machine.
MIT License
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Instructions for accessing the development tools #1

Closed cakenggt closed 4 years ago

cakenggt commented 4 years ago

Regarding the development tools screenshotted in the README, I attempted to load up the url https://www.kesiev.com/rewtro/carts since that index.html file is where the dev tools seem to be, but I am getting a 404 whenever I navigate to that url. What would the correct way be to access the dev tools?

kesiev commented 4 years ago

Well. I didn't publish the SDK part on kesiev.com since you've to create your own development environment on your own machine in order to make a game: you need an Apache server with PHP support and a text editor to change the files under the carts/ directory.

No writing access to the carts/ folder makes it not very useful but... I decided to publish the SDK folder right now anyway, so you can have a preview of the (very few) development tools and have a look to the demo games using the debugger. :)

I'll update the README.md with further instructions. Thanks!

cakenggt commented 4 years ago

Thanks! Is it in the spirit of the project to eventually include editing tools that can create new cartridges and do something like save them to localstorage, or include download/upload of the json files for the ability to continuously develop a game using just the web interface? I'm thinking of something along the lines of https://script-8.github.io/ in terms of editing ability, obviously without the backend server sending a list of games.

kesiev commented 4 years ago

Wow! Very nice and inspiring project and the localstorage idea is good!

There is a world of easier fantasy consoles out there so, for Rewtro, I'd like to keep the "old-school background story" I've thought around the project, even if it's not practical. So: few commands that looks like enhanced low-level operations, local offline SDK, so you own all the software, and self-printing the cartridge like you own a hardware factory.

Anyway you're right: there is a whole lot of stuff that's missing in order to make Rewtro anything like a true project - first of all probably it's missing a developer manual or coding guide. Sadly it's a pet project I'm working on alone and I've another full time job, so I'll try to make the SDK better in my spare time - waiting for some kind of help.

JohnEarnest commented 4 years ago

I've also built a browser-based game development environment based around the venerable CHIP-8 virtual machine. Might offer some useful ideas when/if you get around to fleshing out your dev tools: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo