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General ENIGMA / Enigma and The Raspberry PI
« Last post by hpg678 on January 16, 2021, 06:12:45 pm »Greeting, my fellow enigmanaunts! With everything that is happening in the world nowadays, there wasn't much word from me about the state of Enigma progress. Well i'm happy and excited to tell you that there's another platform Enigma have been successfully transitioned to. That platform is no other than ARM via the Raspberry PI4.
Through the generosity of Goombert, one of the project devs, in gifting me one, such a feat was accomplished.
The Raspberry PI4 used has 4GB memory with a 32GB flash card for storage. You can upgrade the storage as high as you are willing to go. 32Gb is descent enough,As far as installation goes, it went through smoothly. However I had numerous problems attempting to upgrade the gcc and g++ libraries. Unfortunately, the highest version Raspbian uses is 8.3 which causes errors.
After numerous failures trying to upgrade, i installed Manjaro ARM and all problems were non-existant. you can use the setup instructions detailed from here.
There are some tweaks I did which you do if you choose to. Depending on you PI setup, you can use a USB or Flash Disk with higher capacity. I opted to use an external drive enclosure with a 500GB Hard drive as i had one laying around.. There are kits and enclosures designed for the PI but as mine is already in one, this external drive option was the better solution.
i will do instruction a video from installation to compiling a game soon, so look out for that soon.
i must say that I am marveled at the PI. Not only for its size, but its simplicity and power consumption 5 Volts. to run a computer and its peripherals. It is indeed a wonder of technology.
if you have any questions , you can find me on the Discord.
Until then, "be excellent with one another"
Through the generosity of Goombert, one of the project devs, in gifting me one, such a feat was accomplished.
The Raspberry PI4 used has 4GB memory with a 32GB flash card for storage. You can upgrade the storage as high as you are willing to go. 32Gb is descent enough,As far as installation goes, it went through smoothly. However I had numerous problems attempting to upgrade the gcc and g++ libraries. Unfortunately, the highest version Raspbian uses is 8.3 which causes errors.
After numerous failures trying to upgrade, i installed Manjaro ARM and all problems were non-existant. you can use the setup instructions detailed from here.
There are some tweaks I did which you do if you choose to. Depending on you PI setup, you can use a USB or Flash Disk with higher capacity. I opted to use an external drive enclosure with a 500GB Hard drive as i had one laying around.. There are kits and enclosures designed for the PI but as mine is already in one, this external drive option was the better solution.
i will do instruction a video from installation to compiling a game soon, so look out for that soon.
i must say that I am marveled at the PI. Not only for its size, but its simplicity and power consumption 5 Volts. to run a computer and its peripherals. It is indeed a wonder of technology.
if you have any questions , you can find me on the Discord.
Until then, "be excellent with one another"
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Issues Help Desk / Who is the smartest person in all of enigma-dev?
« Last post by time-killer-games on January 04, 2021, 07:13:46 pm »i cast 3 votes, 1 to each of them
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Off-Topic / Converting a Linux user to FreeBSD be like.
« Last post by time-killer-games on December 25, 2020, 08:07:04 pm »
I know what you are thinking: "Why not just use Arch?" My answer: The less GPL, the better. After all, FreeBSD is what all modern Sony and Nintendo consoles and handhelds (even the Switch) are based on for the permissive *BSD license. These companies produce stable and respected products with huge followings. What can be said about Linux? Android and Chromebook. From literally exploding Samsungs to constantly breaking external storage, to having everything stored in the cloud and monitored by Google, what's not to hate? It's obvious why these products suck. "Just anyone" can contribute and break anything they want to without testing the code manually.
If it passes the imperfect and ever-growing CI, they'll probably accept it. Bad idea when money and making a living is a non-motivator to hobbyist GPL devs. This prevents quality products on being delivered, which results in severe bugs, and a rather poopy OS as a whole. FreeBSD needs to be stable, otherwise companies with the tiniest bit of self respect won't look to them. Even apple shares some of FreeBSD ancestry in common for the same licensing debate. Money talks, even if you aren't the one making it but others who are relying on you are, you'll be much likelier to be motivated to deliver what they need and keep up the reputation as being reliable.
Additionally, the process filesystem is optional on FreeBSD. Linux has it mandatory, which results in slower applications that need to read and write to files for any kind of process related interaction, even something as simple as getting the current executable directory and filename, it requires creating, reading, and writing directories, text files, and symlinks for practically everything. The more processes you run, all the more will your computer be unnecessarily slow because of it. More processes = less performance regardless, but now we're just adding to that slowness for no good reason.
Another myth: commercial developers don't give back to the open source permissively licensed OS. Some of that is covered in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cofKxtIO3Is
Greetings from Brazil,
Samuel
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Tips, Tutorials, Examples / Running NGINX Server in GameMaker and ENIGMA
« Last post by time-killer-games on December 20, 2020, 03:55:52 pm »Running NGINX Server in GameMaker and ENIGMA
ENIGMA | GM Version: GameMaker Sudio 2.x or later (ENIGMA and GMS 1.4.x too but w/ different string handling)
Target Platform: Windows, (macOS and Linux/Ubuntu need slightly modified instructions)
Links: CLICK HERE FOR PROCESS INFO'S EXTENSION DOCUMENTATION
Downloads (Required): NGINX, FILE MANAGER, PROCESS INFO
Introduction:
ENIGMA users can ignore the download links for File Manager and Process Info above. Server and client interaction is very common in games and my Process Info extension allows you to do much more with that. For the time being, these extensions are not available in ENIGMA's main repository. File Manager is virtually the same as the upcoming official support for std::filesystem in ENIGMA, however I have several bells and whistles added in my repository such as the ability to pass environment variables directly to string arguments when in the form of, for example, ${VARIABLE}.
TL;DR ENIGMA users have to install ENIGMA from the instructions on my own repository instead to get the required extensions:
https://github.com/time-killer-games/enigma-dev
Then you may proceed with this tutorial.
Summary:
Someone added me on Discord asking me how to do this with my Execute Shell extension, so I used that as an excuse to educate everyone here on a practical use case for my much more powerful extension called Process Info, hoping more people switch to using that extension instead of my Execute Shell and Evaluate Shell extensions, which are much less powerful and deprecated in favor of Process Info. They are also no longer actively developed and won't receive any feature updates. Use Process Info instead, it has a learning curve that is steeper, but you will learn to appreciate it with time as you learn what it can do.
Here I am explaining how to use Process Info more specifically on the topic of how to properly run your own NGINX server.
Tutorial:
Download NGINX and extract the ZIP archive. Drag and drop all the files in the extracted contents, (if extracted to a new folder, the contents of that folder), into your GameMaker Studio 2.x window to add them as included files for your project to make use of them. Not just the nginx executable, but also the folders it depends on which are also included in the ZIP you extracted. Create a controller object obj_conttroller, create a blank room with a black background, and then drag your controller object from the resource tree into your room. Now your body is ready.
In the Create Event of your controller object...
General Initialization and copying all your files to where they need to be is the first thing we need to take care of before we can do anything else.
1) First, choose a process index, similar to a resource id like for a sprite or other stuff, but this will represent a unique instance of a running application so we can later get various information from it such as output that would show in the terminal or command prompt if something goes wrong you can further debug it with ease. I chose the variable name to be nginx because that is the name of the executable we are running here, and a value of 0 stored in the variable to uniquely identify the process index:
2) Next, we create the sandbox directory, using the game_save_id constant, which is a writable directory, the working directory won't always be writable, thus we are using the sandbox directory for that reason alone:
3) Then, copy the included files we have in our project (nginx and its associated files and folders) using my File Manager extension's directory_copy function:
4) We need to set a new working directory to where we copied the included files to, using File Manager's set_working_directory(dname) function, like so:
Now we can write a batch file that will run nginx and we will write it directly to our sandbox, (not to be confused with what we set the working _directory to, which is the "files" subfolder within the sandbox folder game_save_id):
Notice above I also set the working directory of the batch file using the cd command, which is necessary to get this stuff working. Now for the good part; we are going to execute asynchronously an instance of a nginx web server process, but first, please notice I created a temp folder:
That temp folder is needed by nginx, otherwise it will complain in the process standard output that the folder doesn't exist. Notice there are two arguments to our process creation function, the second argument is the command itself, not the first. In the second argument we are running the batch file we created earlier found in our sandbox directory game_save_id.
The first argument of process_execute_asnyc(ind, command), on-the-other-hand, should be the global variable we set in the very first step of this tutorial, nginx as the variable's name and zero as its value to represent an index for the specific running application instance, which will be used to get process output for debugging purposes like mentioned earlier. That leads to our next step major step in this tutorial.
Done with Create Event. Now Draw Event / Draw GUI.
Now we are going to draw the process output to our game window in case something went wrong. If you followed this tutorial perfectly as described, no text should be drawn. In the code below you'll see I am setting a custom font named fnt_example, you will either need to create a font yourself that has this name or omit that line completely. The key thing is the text needs to not be cropped when drawn, so make the text small enough it is readable but will still fit in your game window or view-port for easy viewing. If you want to program a camera system to view the output text more power to you but that I won't be covering and it is a lot of unnecessary extra effort. The second line is where we actually draw the process output, should you have messed up following any steps thus far, text will draw and you will need to go back and review this tutorial to debug what the issue is based on what info is drawn.
process_output(ind) will return the process output for the specified process index, that is, the running application process that was started using the exact same process index ind argument. To clear process output when you no longer need it and wish to free memory, call process_clear_out(ind) on the same exact process index value, in this case the value we have stored in the nginx global variable.
Done with Draw Event / Draw GUI. Now for Game End Event.
Now, create a Game End event in your controller object, and give it the following code to execute when triggered:
This will cause the nginx server to shut down automatically when you close the game, to prevent it running in the background after you are done with it. Notice I used process_execute(ind, command) which will run synchronously, unlike process_execute_async(ind, command) which is what we used earlier. For the process index ind argument I used 999 as the reserved value to represent this process to make room for other process indexes to be used throughout your program should you ever have the need to run 999 other processes (counting zero) simultaneously, this allows for that many if you count up without skipping a reserved value for each process you create. Though 999 is not required, you may use any ridiculously high number if you wish that is less than ULONG_MAX(=4294967295). The key thing is that every process you have running from your game or application must have a unique index when run and held in memory simultaneously. A process index also can not be negative nor can it have a decimal value.
To free a process index from memory, call process_clear_pid(ind) to get rid of the pid's (process identifer, not the same thing as an index) held in memory, as well as call process_clear_out(ind) to get rid of the process index's standard output strings held in memory.
In other words, for example:
The above can be put in your Game End event after the process_execute(ind, command) call for general code cleanup.
If you followed everything correctly, you should have the following code in your controller object:
Create Event:
Like normal when running the NGINX server executable, it will ask you for permission to access your local network, and which you will need to accept. You can view the server by typing in "localhost" in your favorite internet browser.
Happy Coding!
Samuel
ENIGMA | GM Version: GameMaker Sudio 2.x or later (ENIGMA and GMS 1.4.x too but w/ different string handling)
Target Platform: Windows, (macOS and Linux/Ubuntu need slightly modified instructions)
Links: CLICK HERE FOR PROCESS INFO'S EXTENSION DOCUMENTATION
Downloads (Required): NGINX, FILE MANAGER, PROCESS INFO
Introduction:
ENIGMA users can ignore the download links for File Manager and Process Info above. Server and client interaction is very common in games and my Process Info extension allows you to do much more with that. For the time being, these extensions are not available in ENIGMA's main repository. File Manager is virtually the same as the upcoming official support for std::filesystem in ENIGMA, however I have several bells and whistles added in my repository such as the ability to pass environment variables directly to string arguments when in the form of, for example, ${VARIABLE}.
TL;DR ENIGMA users have to install ENIGMA from the instructions on my own repository instead to get the required extensions:
https://github.com/time-killer-games/enigma-dev
Then you may proceed with this tutorial.
Summary:
Someone added me on Discord asking me how to do this with my Execute Shell extension, so I used that as an excuse to educate everyone here on a practical use case for my much more powerful extension called Process Info, hoping more people switch to using that extension instead of my Execute Shell and Evaluate Shell extensions, which are much less powerful and deprecated in favor of Process Info. They are also no longer actively developed and won't receive any feature updates. Use Process Info instead, it has a learning curve that is steeper, but you will learn to appreciate it with time as you learn what it can do.
Here I am explaining how to use Process Info more specifically on the topic of how to properly run your own NGINX server.
Tutorial:
Download NGINX and extract the ZIP archive. Drag and drop all the files in the extracted contents, (if extracted to a new folder, the contents of that folder), into your GameMaker Studio 2.x window to add them as included files for your project to make use of them. Not just the nginx executable, but also the folders it depends on which are also included in the ZIP you extracted. Create a controller object obj_conttroller, create a blank room with a black background, and then drag your controller object from the resource tree into your room. Now your body is ready.
In the Create Event of your controller object...
General Initialization and copying all your files to where they need to be is the first thing we need to take care of before we can do anything else.
1) First, choose a process index, similar to a resource id like for a sprite or other stuff, but this will represent a unique instance of a running application so we can later get various information from it such as output that would show in the terminal or command prompt if something goes wrong you can further debug it with ease. I chose the variable name to be nginx because that is the name of the executable we are running here, and a value of 0 stored in the variable to uniquely identify the process index:
Code: (gml) [Select]
globalvar nginx; nginx = 0;2) Next, we create the sandbox directory, using the game_save_id constant, which is a writable directory, the working directory won't always be writable, thus we are using the sandbox directory for that reason alone:
Code: (gml) [Select]
directory_create(game_save_id);3) Then, copy the included files we have in our project (nginx and its associated files and folders) using my File Manager extension's directory_copy function:
Code: (gml) [Select]
directory_copy(working_directory, game_save_id + "files");4) We need to set a new working directory to where we copied the included files to, using File Manager's set_working_directory(dname) function, like so:
Code: (gml) [Select]
set_working_directory(game_save_id + "files");and that will set the new working directory to the "files" subdirectory we copied into the sandbox folder game_save_id from the working_directory in step 3. It will also copy everything else the game depends on, not just the included files you previously drag and dropped onto the GameMaker Studio 2 IDE window.Now we can write a batch file that will run nginx and we will write it directly to our sandbox, (not to be confused with what we set the working _directory to, which is the "files" subfolder within the sandbox folder game_save_id):
Code: (gml) [Select]
f = file_text_open_write(game_save_id + "nginx.bat");
file_text_write_string(f, @'cd "' + working_directory + @'" & "' + working_directory + @'nginx.exe"');
file_text_close(f);Notice above I also set the working directory of the batch file using the cd command, which is necessary to get this stuff working. Now for the good part; we are going to execute asynchronously an instance of a nginx web server process, but first, please notice I created a temp folder:
Code: (gml) [Select]
directory_create(working_directory + "temp");
process_execute_async(nginx, @'cmd /c @ECHO OFF & "' + game_save_id + @'nginx.bat"');That temp folder is needed by nginx, otherwise it will complain in the process standard output that the folder doesn't exist. Notice there are two arguments to our process creation function, the second argument is the command itself, not the first. In the second argument we are running the batch file we created earlier found in our sandbox directory game_save_id.
The first argument of process_execute_asnyc(ind, command), on-the-other-hand, should be the global variable we set in the very first step of this tutorial, nginx as the variable's name and zero as its value to represent an index for the specific running application instance, which will be used to get process output for debugging purposes like mentioned earlier. That leads to our next step major step in this tutorial.
Done with Create Event. Now Draw Event / Draw GUI.
Now we are going to draw the process output to our game window in case something went wrong. If you followed this tutorial perfectly as described, no text should be drawn. In the code below you'll see I am setting a custom font named fnt_example, you will either need to create a font yourself that has this name or omit that line completely. The key thing is the text needs to not be cropped when drawn, so make the text small enough it is readable but will still fit in your game window or view-port for easy viewing. If you want to program a camera system to view the output text more power to you but that I won't be covering and it is a lot of unnecessary extra effort. The second line is where we actually draw the process output, should you have messed up following any steps thus far, text will draw and you will need to go back and review this tutorial to debug what the issue is based on what info is drawn.
Code: (gml) [Select]
draw_set_font(fnt_example);
draw_text(0, 0, process_output(nginx));process_output(ind) will return the process output for the specified process index, that is, the running application process that was started using the exact same process index ind argument. To clear process output when you no longer need it and wish to free memory, call process_clear_out(ind) on the same exact process index value, in this case the value we have stored in the nginx global variable.
Done with Draw Event / Draw GUI. Now for Game End Event.
Now, create a Game End event in your controller object, and give it the following code to execute when triggered:
Code: (gml) [Select]
process_execute(999, @'"' + working_directory + @'nginx.exe" -s stop');This will cause the nginx server to shut down automatically when you close the game, to prevent it running in the background after you are done with it. Notice I used process_execute(ind, command) which will run synchronously, unlike process_execute_async(ind, command) which is what we used earlier. For the process index ind argument I used 999 as the reserved value to represent this process to make room for other process indexes to be used throughout your program should you ever have the need to run 999 other processes (counting zero) simultaneously, this allows for that many if you count up without skipping a reserved value for each process you create. Though 999 is not required, you may use any ridiculously high number if you wish that is less than ULONG_MAX(=4294967295). The key thing is that every process you have running from your game or application must have a unique index when run and held in memory simultaneously. A process index also can not be negative nor can it have a decimal value.
To free a process index from memory, call process_clear_pid(ind) to get rid of the pid's (process identifer, not the same thing as an index) held in memory, as well as call process_clear_out(ind) to get rid of the process index's standard output strings held in memory.
In other words, for example:
Code: (gml) [Select]
process_clear_pid(nginx);
process_clear_out(nginx);
process_clear_pid(999);
process_clear_out(999);The above can be put in your Game End event after the process_execute(ind, command) call for general code cleanup.
If you followed everything correctly, you should have the following code in your controller object:
Create Event:
Code: (gml) [Select]
globalvar nginx; nginx = 0;
directory_create(game_save_id);
directory_copy(working_directory, game_save_id + "files");
set_working_directory(game_save_id + "files");
f = file_text_open_write(game_save_id + "nginx.bat");
file_text_write_string(f, @'cd "' + working_directory + @'" & "' + working_directory + @'nginx.exe"');
file_text_close(f);
directory_create(working_directory + "temp");
process_execute_async(nginx, @'cmd /c @ECHO OFF & "' + game_save_id + @'nginx.bat"');Draw Event (or Draw GUI, either one):Code: (gml) [Select]
draw_set_font(fnt_example); // optional line
draw_text(0, 0, process_output(nginx));Game End Event:Code: (gml) [Select]
process_execute(999, @'"' + working_directory + @'nginx.exe" -s stop');
process_clear_pid(nginx);
process_clear_out(nginx);
process_clear_pid(999);
process_clear_out(999);Like normal when running the NGINX server executable, it will ask you for permission to access your local network, and which you will need to accept. You can view the server by typing in "localhost" in your favorite internet browser.
Happy Coding!
Samuel
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General ENIGMA / Re: How is ENIGMA's development going?
« Last post by hpg678 on December 16, 2020, 10:22:25 am »
you can find it here.
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General ENIGMA / Re: How is ENIGMA's development going?
« Last post by P-Tux7 on December 16, 2020, 03:42:39 am »needless to say there have been a lot to work. This adds up to improvements and re-structuring which have led to some of those same functions not worked on or/and dismissed altogether.I'd love to join the Discord but I cannot find the link. The home page only has an image file.
Another reason has to do with the developers putting most of their focus into RGM , the proposed better IDE to fruition. RGM promises better features and is easier to work with since it is structured using QT unlike LGM that uses JAVA.
You can keep up to date joining the Discord or its github page.
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General ENIGMA / Re: How is ENIGMA's development going?
« Last post by hpg678 on December 15, 2020, 09:20:45 am »needless to say there have been a lot to work. This adds up to improvements and re-structuring which have led to some of those same functions not worked on or/and dismissed altogether.
Another reason has to do with the developers putting most of their focus into RGM , the proposed better IDE to fruition. RGM promises better features and is easier to work with since it is structured using QT unlike LGM that uses JAVA.
You can keep up to date joining the Discord or its github page.
Another reason has to do with the developers putting most of their focus into RGM , the proposed better IDE to fruition. RGM promises better features and is easier to work with since it is structured using QT unlike LGM that uses JAVA.
You can keep up to date joining the Discord or its github page.
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General ENIGMA / How is ENIGMA's development going?
« Last post by P-Tux7 on December 13, 2020, 07:57:29 pm »See title. I recall the "missing GM functions" list being the same today as it was five years ago, and that has me worried...
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Announcements / Re: ENIGMOS - The Operating System for Attractive Women!
« Last post by P-Tux7 on December 13, 2020, 07:56:50 pm »I would recommend GrafX2 as well - It has specific pixel art functions and can be controlled entirely with the keyboard (not to mention customizable shortcuts), making it easy to finely touch the level of detail used on sprites.
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Announcements / ENIGMOS - The Operating System for Attractive Women!
« Last post by time-killer-games on November 10, 2020, 06:52:47 am »Hello everyone!
I created a FreeBSD VirtualBox image that you may use to create games with everything you need to do that installed by default - showcasing the Xfce Desktop Environment customized to be themed around the game development software packaged with it - ENIGMA - as well as some basic apps for development. GIMP and GrafX2 for drawing and animating sprites, tilesets, backgrounds, and textures. Audacity for editing music you have composed or to touch up on your sound effects. mpv Media Player (the client library and command line app) for playing videos as cutscenes for your games or to preview them directly from a double click in Thunar File Manager. Engrampa for a graphical means to manage archives. OctoPkg for graphical package management. The FreeBSD GUI Wifi Manager, Firefox, Thunderbird, and all the default apps of the Xfce Desktop Environment - all essentials to having a complete desktop experience ready for game development - without the bloat. Also includes WINE and the Linux compatibility layer for running software built for Windows and Linux for convenience.
After you have booted, please note ENIGMA is installed under "/usr/local/bin/engima-dev/" and there is at the time of writing one example game pre-packaged with the distro. Under "/usr/local/bin/enigma-dev/games/" you will find my Key to Succes platformer game directory; in the form of an runnable executable therein (the file is literally named "executable") and the editable source code is archived in the same directory (that file is named "editable.tar.xz"). The editable can be extracted anywhere in "/usr/local/bin/enigma-dev/games/Key to Success/" without root access. I ran "sudo chmod 777" on that folder so you can extract the archive there with Engrampa Archive Manager for convenience. The "/usr/local/bin/enigma-dev/games/" parent folder is also not write protected so you may add your own game creations in there as well, and organize them by folder.
Install Instructions:
https://youtu.be/nA4lVirJdmQ
OS review by RoboNuggie (Thanks RoboNuggie!!!):
https://youtu.be/z3mO5wj1yqM
Example Games:
https://youtu.be/iPxeApdyH3c
As mentioned in the video, Windows users can extract the *.xz file by downloading and using 7zip, Linux, *BSD, and Mac users and use the unxz command and Linux users will need the xz-utils package installed for that. Mac users also need to install xz-utils by some means.
For example Ubuntu users:
Mac users can install it via:
...although the macOS terminal command also requires that you have HomeBrew installed in advance with the instructions found at https://brew.sh/
The gorgeous desktop backgrounds used by the OS were created by ENIGMA community member HitCoder.
The download link has the following xz compressed file:
- FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-GameDevOS.vdi.xz
This is the virtual box image. Requires Oracle VM VirtualBox.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ - only available for Win/Mac/Lin
Extract the VirualBox image with (or use 7zip instead Windows users)
You are now ready to follow the Installation Instructions found in the video above.
Download:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jRwidGgZqesGOFh8RnLW7jypc-ZBfpML?usp=sharing
I hope this attracts more people over to the ENIGMA and FreeBSD communities lel
Samuel
I created a FreeBSD VirtualBox image that you may use to create games with everything you need to do that installed by default - showcasing the Xfce Desktop Environment customized to be themed around the game development software packaged with it - ENIGMA - as well as some basic apps for development. GIMP and GrafX2 for drawing and animating sprites, tilesets, backgrounds, and textures. Audacity for editing music you have composed or to touch up on your sound effects. mpv Media Player (the client library and command line app) for playing videos as cutscenes for your games or to preview them directly from a double click in Thunar File Manager. Engrampa for a graphical means to manage archives. OctoPkg for graphical package management. The FreeBSD GUI Wifi Manager, Firefox, Thunderbird, and all the default apps of the Xfce Desktop Environment - all essentials to having a complete desktop experience ready for game development - without the bloat. Also includes WINE and the Linux compatibility layer for running software built for Windows and Linux for convenience.
After you have booted, please note ENIGMA is installed under "/usr/local/bin/engima-dev/" and there is at the time of writing one example game pre-packaged with the distro. Under "/usr/local/bin/enigma-dev/games/" you will find my Key to Succes platformer game directory; in the form of an runnable executable therein (the file is literally named "executable") and the editable source code is archived in the same directory (that file is named "editable.tar.xz"). The editable can be extracted anywhere in "/usr/local/bin/enigma-dev/games/Key to Success/" without root access. I ran "sudo chmod 777" on that folder so you can extract the archive there with Engrampa Archive Manager for convenience. The "/usr/local/bin/enigma-dev/games/" parent folder is also not write protected so you may add your own game creations in there as well, and organize them by folder.
Install Instructions:
https://youtu.be/nA4lVirJdmQ
OS review by RoboNuggie (Thanks RoboNuggie!!!):
https://youtu.be/z3mO5wj1yqM
Example Games:
https://youtu.be/iPxeApdyH3c
As mentioned in the video, Windows users can extract the *.xz file by downloading and using 7zip, Linux, *BSD, and Mac users and use the unxz command and Linux users will need the xz-utils package installed for that. Mac users also need to install xz-utils by some means.
For example Ubuntu users:
Code: [Select]
sudo apt-get install xz-utilsMac users can install it via:
Code: [Select]
brew install xz...although the macOS terminal command also requires that you have HomeBrew installed in advance with the instructions found at https://brew.sh/
The gorgeous desktop backgrounds used by the OS were created by ENIGMA community member HitCoder.
The download link has the following xz compressed file:
- FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-GameDevOS.vdi.xz
This is the virtual box image. Requires Oracle VM VirtualBox.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ - only available for Win/Mac/Lin
Extract the VirualBox image with (or use 7zip instead Windows users)
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unxz /path/to/FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-GameDevOS.vdi.xzYou are now ready to follow the Installation Instructions found in the video above.
Download:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jRwidGgZqesGOFh8RnLW7jypc-ZBfpML?usp=sharing
I hope this attracts more people over to the ENIGMA and FreeBSD communities lel
Samuel