New to defold, but been making games professionally since 2010.
Excited to learn Defold.
Not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but I have some fundamental/general questions:
Does Defold have a CLI? To allow DevOps with automated builds to various platforms?
Best way to make a game responsive, game and UI (As in responsive to different screen sizes, especially HTML5, when loading as iFrame), to scale (not stretch) to any screen size.
Export to XCode instead of IPA?
Dynamic loading of assets at runtime, for example, images, videos, audio files.
Yes, you can build projects with bob on the command line. Fully automated builds scripts are possible. Here’s a sample we use for Steam builds
#!/bin/bash
title=$(less game.project | grep "^title = " | cut -d "=" -f2 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')
title_no_space=$(echo -e "${title}" | tr -d '[[:space:]]')
contentroot=C:/steamworks/sdk/tools/ContentBuilder/content/
echo "Project: ${title}"
if [ ! -f bob.jar ]
then
echo "Unable to find bob.jar. Download it from d.defold.com."
exit 1
fi
bob() {
java -jar bob.jar $@
}
build() {
platform=$1
shift 1
rm -rf build
bob --archive clean resolve build --build-report-html "build-report-${platform}.html" --texture-compression true --variant "release" --platform "${platform}" -e a@a.com -u fake_token
}
bundle() {
platform=$1
echo "${platform}"
shift 1
bob --platform ${platform} --bundle-output build/${platform} $@ bundle
}
move_to_steam() {
platform=$1
if [ "${platform}" == "x86_64-darwin" ]
then
echo "${title_no_space}_${platform}"
echo "Removing old ${contentroot}${title_no_space}_${platform}"
rm -rf "${contentroot}${title_no_space}_${platform}"
if ! cd build/${platform} ; then read -p "Build folder ${platform} not found! - Press Enter"; exit 1; fi
mkdir -p "${contentroot}${title_no_space}_${platform}"
cp -r * "${contentroot}${title_no_space}_${platform}"
cd ../..
else
echo "${title_no_space}_${platform}"
echo "Removing old ${contentroot}${title_no_space}_${platform}"
rm -rf "${contentroot}${title_no_space}_${platform}"
if ! cd "build/${platform}/${title}" ; then read -p "Build folder ${platform} not found! - Press Enter"; exit 1; fi
mkdir -p "${contentroot}${title_no_space}_${platform}"
cp -r * "${contentroot}${title_no_space}_${platform}"
cd ../../..
fi
}
do_platform() {
platform=$1
shift 1
echo -e "\n[Building ${platform}]"
build ${platform}
echo -e "\n[Bundling ${platform}]"
bundle ${platform}
echo -e "\n[Moving to Steam ${platform}]"
move_to_steam ${platform}
echo -e "\n[${platform} Done]"
}
# build / bundle / archive platforms
do_platform x86_64-win32
do_platform x86_64-linux
do_platform x86_64-darwin
# play some music to let us known it's done
ffplay fanfare.mp3 -autoexit -nodisp
echo -e "\n[All Done!! - You can now run upload_steam]"
read -p "Press enter to close"
Use something like RenderCam and then code UI either to be responsive or support multiple orientations. It is possible to do all in GUI too. Blossom Blast Saga was done almost entirely in GUI afaik.
No, but running in simulator is possible. And the source is available so if you need to customize the binary you can. There is native extension support so you can code anything custom you need.
Yes, it’s possible. Either by using Live Update or just downloading and using them.
I agree that something like RenderCam+Orthographic should be included as a builtin and used in the blank projects. Maybe it will happen eventually.
It depends on how you want to use the media, you may need to process it first, and you may need to use a native extension to make use of it. But with Live Update it’s done for you for the most part, it’s the easiest option.
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