How to install and play Defold templates

Questions
#1

Hi I’m completely new to Defold and I want to try some of the templates and have a quick play about with them.

I looked at this one example;

And it says " This asset can be added as a library dependency in your project:"

I’ve tried doing that:

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And then fetching libraries but noting is happening, how do I get this to work or is there an easier way of installing and playing the games these templates provide.

#2

The war battles asset pack is just that, an asset pack (textures, fx, fonts etc). It is not a game you can play.
After you fetched this lib it became part of your project. Look at the assets pane, you should see a def-war-battles folder.

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#3

And the actual tutorial is here: War battles tutorial

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#4

Thank you I was hoping this was a mini-completed game that I could play to get a feel of how things work etc, I will work through the tutorial at some point.

However I think it’s still worth mentioning I was unable to fetch the files directly from Github using the library dependency which I think is worth understanding in case I want to work with other projects from Git in the future.

#5

This without quotes in project-dependencies:
‘https://github.com/defold/defold-examples/releases/download/0.2.0/war-battles.zip’
Then do project-fetchLibraries.
This adds ‘def war battles’ to your project.
Howto: Working with library projects in Defold

You can also clone the repository (https://github.com/defold/defold-examples/tree/master/war-battles) and run that.