Okay. I know this is probably obvious to everybody, but I have been searching the forum and online and I have drawn a blank.
So a few questions:
What is compiling?
Why would I need to use it?
How do I compile my game?
How do I upload a compiled game on Dashingdon?
This is in reference with my problems with the softly save system, but I thought I might a well make a different topic.
Compiling: convert (a program) into a machine-code or lower-level form in which the program can be executed.
So in essence, it packages all up into one independent executable.
To distribute your game outside the mediums that CoG/HG offer? (Though you need to do it for free, I recommend you to read the legal terms first). I don’t know of another use for it, and I’ve never used it myself other than to see what the game would look like when I was learning all this CoG stuff, but maybe there’s more uses for it I’m not aware of.
You can compile it placing your files into the corresponding folder ( /web/mygame/scenes) and then running the compile executable (compile.html) from here.
GitHub - dfabulich/choicescript: ChoiceScript is a language for developing multiple-choice games.
I’ve never used Dashingdon, I need to learn that soon, but I can’t help you with that yet.
How do I run it? Remember, I don’t know much computer speech.
Download the program
Extract all the files on your preferred folder
Go to the folder “web/mygame/scenes” and delete all the files there and put all your files instead.
Go back to the main folder and run “compile.html”
If it ask you to choose a folder pick the main one in which all those files are (by default it’s named “choicescript-master”)
You should see this message
Click “here” and download the compiled game. That’s all
Thank you! I thought you meant that I could run it from the site, not just download it. Sorry, misunderstood.
Ohh sorry, I didn’t express myself clearly. I’m so used to get my hands on this things that I forgot some people doesn’t know. Hope it helps, if you need anything else just ask.
No worries, thank you! Now that I did it, I remember doing it back in the days before Dashingdon, I had just forgotten. My brain is just overloaded by trying to resolve the save bug, so everything feels weird.
This topic can be closed now, if the moderators wants to.
Also, something to keep in mind: compiling tool only packages scenes that are in the *scene_list. If you have a couple stray text files that are called by *goto_scene and *gosub_scene and not in the startup list, then those will be missing and the game will throw errors at people.
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