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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sorry for the delay on this, but after the last meeting I forgot about sending out the info I talked about.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>First off, folder structure: there isn’t much too this. Make a folder with your game and data within it. Make sure there is only one executable (*.exe) in it. You can also have an icon and “info”, I’ll explain in a moment. The result is a folder that looks like<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>My Game<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>My Game.exe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Startup.cfg (generated, and overwritten every time the game starts)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Info.ini (optional)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Icon.ico/png (optional)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>… (anything else you want, unless it is called Info.ini or Icon.ico/png which could be picked for the game’s icon and information)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The game MUST have an exit button and should always be full screen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Unity developers: I honestly have not looked around, but make sure your game doesn’t have the configurator pooping up when the game runs. For everyone’s current games, they can probably run at max quality settings, and should be 1920x1080 and fullscreen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To start the game, a player must press either 1 player or 2 player (prominent buttons on the arcade machine), a file will be generated next to the EXE called “Startup.cfg”. This will have two fields in the following format:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>PlayerCount: <1/2><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>StartTime: <datetime><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m sure passing them in as arguments would be good, but keeping them separate allows for easier maintenance, and makes it easy for us to add more info without cluttering arguments, which you may want for something else. I’m also sure that you might’ve wanted to handle the player buttons yourself (at least, that was my original thought when the Jocobus project was announced), but we need some very specific way to start a game, and those buttons seemed the most obvious.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Icon is easy enough to understand: some image, probably 256x256, though larger will be scaled down. If you don’t provide an ICO or PNG, the icon associated with the EXE will be used… and it will probably look terrible.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=655 height=368 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CFEF9A.FC6A2310"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The last most important part is Info.ini<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just like with the icon, if one is not found, the info is pulled from the EXE. If you right click your EXE (on Windows) and choose “Details”, you will see the Title and Description your game has. If they are empty, you will see the game’s File name, with the description “An awesome game called <file name>” (as you can see with “bash” in the above screenshot).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Format for “Info.ini”:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>[Key]<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Value<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>[Key]<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Value<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>[Key]<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Value<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>…Etc.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>% comment<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You don’t need to specify comments, but they are there if interested.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Available keys are:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>“Title”, which takes a single line title.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>“Description”, which takes a multi-line/linewrapped description.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>“Arguments”, which are arguments passed into the game if desired.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That’s everything, if you want to actually see the launcher’s source code, look at <a href="https://github.com/sgdc/jam/tree/master/Launcher">https://github.com/sgdc/jam/tree/master/Launcher</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any questions, email me at <a href="mailto:vsimonet@stevens.edu">vsimonet@stevens.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Vinnie<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>