6d65 / shovelleros

#The Shovellers Game

The Idea

Getting started

The game is basend on the Cocos2d-x game engine, more specifically the JavaScript version of it, which is called cocos2d-js.

The devbox images

We started out with Vagrant images, but these are quite cumbersome, and mostly vagrant specific(though it's possible to reuse bits from the provisioning shell script.). We would like to use Docker as a build machine, and that means porting the porvisioning script to Docker, which has a quite bad syntax. Probably the best solution is to use Packer from Hashicorp, which is a tool for specifying the requirements for a machine, and it would spit out Vagrant, Docker, VMWare, you name it, VMs. It looks like the right tool for the job.

Building Packer Docker Images

This seems to be the answer:

Getting started with cocos2d-html5 and a working html5 dev environment seems to be a bowerinstall away.

vagrant up

The script by itself will install all the prerequisites for the cocos2d-x and cocos2d-js, including the android sdk/ndk. Note: not done yet.

Installing the cocos2d-x/js on Linux

http://www.cocos2d-x.org/wiki/Linux_Installation_and_Setup

Adding GLEW cmake to make the build work

http://jasonjuang.blogspot.com/2013/10/adding-findglewcmake-to-cmake-in-ubuntu.html

shovelleros's Issues

Create gulp task for deployment on a server

The app running on localhost can be accessed from the wifi lan using a mobile device, for debugging purposes. But it would be also cool to have a deployment script to push it somewhere like appengine or heroku. There was such an script in powershell already, but since we are using gulp as the build system now, we probably want to have task for that too.

Though, it's not that critical.

Vagrant box doesn't work

After adding the box and doing vagrant init cocosdev I run vagrant up and then get this message back multiple times until it times out: default: Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying...

Move to CoffeeScript

Rewrite the current mess to CoffeeScript. Thank god it's not a lot of it.

Proper build script and/or system

Either create a shell script to support Linux and Mac OS X (and other *nix friendly environments) or choose a proper build system. There should be something to build JavaScript projects with dependencies, targets, etc.

Create a Docker image for Cocos2djs development

Use the existing bash files used to provision Vagrant,
and make a Docker image for Cocos2djs. It shouldn't take much.

Later use that image to create a Docker image specific for Shovellers.

Gulp build task for different screen sizes

Create a gulp task to build the project for a particular screen size.

Mainly 2 screen sizes for the start:

• 1136 x 640 for iphone 5s
• 1280 x 768