how to build a project?

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smcbot

So basically... I need to know how to properly put together a LITI project probably with gradle (I think). I have written most of my game in eclipse by importing the LITI jars but I don't want to do anything that I'll have to change in the end. But I have no clue how to properly package it into a jar (or something else executable). I have no experience whatsoever with any build automation tools I have always compiled my programs into jar files myself. So some help with how you can properly assemble a LITI project. Another thing to consider is that I want to have a file to store permanent information about the player (like current level), and I don't know how that will work.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

nightm4re

I have just created a documentation page for deploying LITIengine games. Most of the information there was directly taken from our internal notes on how to deploy Naughty Elves, so it has proven to be working in the past. The Guide relies on Gradle as a build system, so if you don't have that set up yet, have a look at our Gurk Nukem project and its build.gradle and settings.gradle to get an understanding what is needed in your Gradle setup.
In the future, we need to provide non-Gradle deployment guides as well.

Regarding player progress and savegames, have a look at the new "Savegames" documentation page. This was just very quickly written down using an example from an older version of Dr. Lepus, but it should give you a good idea how to get started with savegames.

steffen

nightm4re keep in mind that the gradle target fullbuild is a custom target of the LITIengine and only works when referencing the engine from source.
Also and distZipWindow is a custom target in the build.gradle file of the game.
createAllExecutables is only available with the edu.sc.seis.launch4j plugin.

Gurk Nukem doesn't have these targets (yet). Maybe we should share the build.gradle of Naughty Elves as a blueprint. Some of that script gets even easier when referencing the engine as implementation reference instead of directly from source.
The documentation here though to provide a first idea of how the deployment task can be tackled.

smcbot

Thanks so much! I'll check out these documentation pages.

nightm4re

Oh, I just noticed that the example on Xml savegames is so old, it doesn't use LITIengine's XmlUtilities. Be sure to check out XmlUtilities.read(...)and XmlUtilities.save(...) so you won't have to instantiate a JAXBContext yourself.

Edit: Fixed.

nightm4re

Thanks for these hints, I didn't intend this as a definitive guide at all Just a brief overview without writing too much myself...

nightm4re

I just copypasted the Naughty Elves build.gradle to the doc site so you can see all required tasks.
However, we should add some comments in the code block and strip it down to the essentials when we find the time.

smcbot

Ok thanks so much!