gamedev-playground

Goal of this repo is to do some game development.

Currently exploring game development on manjaro linux, with intention to build WebGL games.

unity

This video discussing how to Export Unity Games to WebGL was inspiration for creating this repo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqTHjjtQHM&ab_channel=Simmer.io

Installing on manjaro linux

Download the AppImage from Unity site for linux

yay -S appimagelauncher
chmod u+x UnityHub.AppImage
./UnityHub.AppImage

Once Unity Hub is up and running, click on the Profile Icon and 'sign in' or register an account

After signing in:

• click 'License Management'
• click 'Activate New License'
  • select 'Unity Personal' if using for personal projects
• After the license is active
  • go back to main Unity Hub menu
  • click 'Installs'
  • Add
  • select which release, 'Unity 2019.4.21f1 (LTS)
  • Then select which modules wanting to add on
    • Selected Linux, WebGL and Documentation. Can add others later

The install process may take a little bit of time

After install finishes:

• Go back to main menu
  • Select 'Projects'
  • Click 'New', select Unity version
  • Select type of project, give it a name and create

Unity appears to install everything to ~/Unity

Switching to exploring godot game engine, since unity, while it will run on my system, seems to have a lot of errors building game kits, and I am unable to successfully export to WebGL.

godot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Godot_Engine

Excellent list of questions about Godot, worth the read: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/faq.html

Install latest dev version

yay -S godot-git

Compiling from scratch was unnecessary, and also problematic, as the built godot complained it could not detect compatible drivers for my gpu.

Solution was to just download the linux 64-bit godot from godot website. This worked flawlessly.

Inside the godot editor there are demo projects to open and explore.

I was able to successfully load a 2d game up, export it to html5, host http server locally using python python -m http.server 8000 --bind 127.0.0.1 and everything just worked. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/workflow/export/exporting_for_web.html

However testing html5 output is even easier than that, as there is an html5 button within the editor for running the project immediately without needing to export.

exporting a godot game to html5 and hosting on github pages

https://posworkshop.space/posts/godot-deploy-web-export-to-github/