GDevelop IDE

This is a new, revamped editor for GDevelop. It is based on React, Material-UI, Pixi.js and Electron. It uses GDevelop core C++ classes compiled to Javascript to work with GDevelop games.

Installation

Make sure to have Git and Node.js installed. Yarn is optional.

git clone https://github.com/4ian/GD.git
cd GD/newIDE/app
yarn #or npm install

Development

yarn start #or npm start

This will open the app in your web browser.

Images resources, GDJS Runtime, extensions will be copied in resources, and libGD.js will be downloaded automatically.

Development of the standalone app

You can run the app with Electron. Make sure that you've run yarn start in app folder before (see above).

cd newIDE/electron-app
yarn #or npm install

#For macOS:
./node_modules/electron/dist/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron app

#For Windows:
node node_modules\electron\cli.js app

#For Linux:
./node_modules/electron/dist/electron app

Development of UI components

You can run a storybook that is used as a playground for rapid UI component development and testing:

cd newIDE/app
yarn storybook #or npm run storybook

Building and deploying the standalone app

Desktop version

cd newIDE/electron-app
yarn build #or npm run build

This will build and package the Electron app for Windows, macOS and Linux (according to your OS). The output are stored inside newIDE/electron-app/dist and copied to Binaries/Output/Release_XXX. Version number is read from newIDE/electron-app/app/package.json.

Webapp version

cd newIDE/web-app
yarn deploy #or npm run deploy

Current status

This new editor is still in development and is missing some features:

Autocompletion of expressions and parameters in Events editor.
Creating and editing groups of objects
Support for native games
Export with Cocos2d-JS to Android and iOS.

Additional help

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App. Check out their documentation for common tasks or help about using it.

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