reduct-redux

Setup

Install the necessary packages and run the bundler.

Choose one of the two below:

Yarn:

yarn install
mkdir dist
# Symlink resources into the folder that our bundler serves
ln -s $(pwd)/resources/ dist/resources
yarn serve
open http://localhost:1234/index.html

NPM:

npm install
mkdir dist
# Symlink resources into the folder that our bundler serves
ln -s $(pwd)/resources/ dist/resources
npm run serve
open http://localhost:1234/index.html

Distribution

If you use Yarn: run yarn dist

If you use NPM: run npm run dist

The production version of Reduct will be in the dist/ folder, like so:

$ ls dist
7a8f62b47d6afa44523f2b4bfacf0304.png  index.html
7d4e14db6c871b054b74a4c5b2bc2367.js   reduct-redux.js
a18342a55b8501c4686ae638f58cd800.js   reduct-redux.map
d004428b9d33a5c3a235b1f80a1a6641.png  resources

(Remember, resources is a symlink that you created above.)

Now you can copy the contents of this directory to a web server.

Debugging

The password to skip levels in the production version is cornell. You can enable this during development by appending ?nodev to the URL. Conversely, in production, appending ?dev to the URL will enable development mode.

If the build system gets confused and doesn't seem to pick up changes to files, delete the .cache folder in the project directory and try again.

Importing Levels

1. Go to the chapterutil directory. Make sure you have Python 3 and virtualenv installed.

   MacOS instructions: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install3/osx/

   Then install virtualenv: pip install virtualenv

2. Set up chapterutil:

   # All of these must be run IN THE SAME TERMINAL
   virtualenv -p python3 venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Download the sheet from Google Sheets as XSLX.

4. Create any JSON files for chapters that did not previously exist. (Just copy an existing JSON file and edit its title/name. To preserve continuity of what aliens appear, try to copy the chapter immediately preceding the new chapter.)

5. Run the following script: bash automate.sh PATH/TO/XLSX/FILE.xlsx. Again, this must be run from the same terminal as previously.

   If you're running this and have previously set it up, run source venv/bin/activate first.

   It might spit out warnings about not being able to import things - this is caused by the rows in the spreadsheet that just contain notes.

Generating Spritesheets

TODO: