Rats!

This was created as an entry for a linux game jam hosted in itch (https://dashbangsplat.itch.io/rats)

Description

Ever want to be a rat in a maze searching for cheese? Well this is your lucky day! Rats! is a game about being a rat in a maze looking for cheese.I was made for the Linux Game Jam in March 2017. (https://itch.io/jam/linux-jam-2017)

Pre-requisites

1. Node.js - http://nodejs.org - for build tools and getting latest versus of third party scripts
2. Electron.io - httpd://electron.atom.io - used to for development and pacaking (i.e. npm install -g electron)
3. Electron Packager - build binaries for various platforms and architectures (i.e. npm install -g electron-packager)
4. Install all the dev deps in the rats dir for things like gulp and phaser-ce (i.e. npm install)
5. Note: node-canvas is one of the npm dev deps, cairo is a Pre-requisite for node-canvas (see https://www.npmjs.com/package/canvas for more details)

Starting (from the rats directory)

> electron .

Unit Testing

> npm test

Building

> gulp

Gulp packaging options

> gulp dist_options

Gulp packaging examples

> gulp dist_win32_x64
> gulp dist_linux_x64
> gulp dist_darwin_x64

or generate dists for all platforms on an architecture

> gulp dist_all_x64

Gulp butler examples (also calls associated dist_* task)

> gulp butler_win32_x64
> gulp butler_linux_x64
> gulp butler_darwin_x64

or push all platforms on an architecture to butler

> gulp butler_all_x64

Manual packaging (various distros)

> electron-packager build/ rats --platform win32 --arch ia32 --overwrite
> electron-packager build/ rats --platform linux --arch ia32 --overwrite
> electron-packager build/ rats --platform darwin --arch ia32 --overwrite
> electron-packager build/ rats --platform win32 --arch x64 --overwrite
> electron-packager build/ rats --platform linux --arch x64 --overwrite
> electron-packager build/ rats --platform darwin --arch x64 --overwrite

Manual distribution (just the 32bit distros)

> cd rats-win32-ia32/; rm rats-windows-latest.zip; zip rats-windows-latest.zip *; cd ..; butler push rats-win32-ia32/rats-windows-latest.zip dashbangsplat/rats:windows-latest
> cd rats-linux-ia32/; rm rats-linux-latest.zip; zip rats-linux-latest.zip *; cd ..; butler push rats-linux-ia32/rats-linux-latest.zip dashbangsplat/rats:linux-latest
> cd rats-darwin-ia32/; rm rats-mac-latest.zip; zip rats-mac-latest.zip *; cd ..; butler push rats-darwin-ia32/rats-mac-latest.zip dashbangsplat/rats:mac-latest