Pixel Vision 8's core philosophy is to teach retro game development with streamlined workflows. This project shows off how to create a simple text adventure game using Lua and Pixel Vision 8.
I've tried my best to make compiling, testing, and packaging as easy as possible. While you can learn more about this in the docs, here is the quickest way to build this game:
Before you get started, you are going to want to install .Net 6, NodeJS, and an IDE like Visual Studio Code.
- Install the NodeJS dependencies
> npm install - Install gulp globally
> npm install gulp -g - Run the default Gulp action
> gulp - Launch the
.dllmanuallydotnet App/bin/Debug/Terminal.dll
If you want to build executables, you can use the Gulp action > gulp package. This will create a new Releases/Final/ folder, and inside, you'll zip files for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Finally, you can use Visual Studio Code to debug a build by running one of the custom tasks included in the .vscode folder.
Pixel Vision 8 was created by Jesse Freeman (@jessefreeman) in collaboration with Christina-Antoinette Neofotistou (@CastPixel) for art, and Christer Kaitila (@McFunkypants) for music.
With additional contributions by the following people:
- Pedro Medeiros
- Shawn Rakowski
- Drake Williams
- Matt Hughson
- Dean Ellis
And special thanks to Jan Rochat, Ethan Shaughnessy, and our other sponsors.
Pixel Vision 8 is Licensed under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL) License. See the LICENSE file in the project root for complete license information.
Pixel Vision 8 is Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Jesse Freeman. All rights reserved.