Your first Custom Campaign

Your first Custom Campaign

This following section will cover all the basics on how to create a custom campaign for NewSafetyHelp.
Please be aware, that this will require some basic entry creation knowledge.
I will be skipping the syntax and installation in this custom campaign part.
So, if you haven't made your first entry yet, be sure to check it out first.

Creating the custom campaign

We will first see how the custom campaign is defined and then how to add entries, calls, emails and videos to it.
Similar to how we created a simple entry, we also have to create a .json file in a folder. This will contain the options and settings for your custom campaign.

A simple custom campaign should look like this (Don't forget the braces {}, commas ,, the quotation marks "" and the colon :):

{
	"custom_campaign_name": "Custom Campaign Name",

        "custom_campaign_desktop_name": "Campaign Desktop Name",

        "custom_campaign_icon_image_name": "campaign_desktop_icon.png",

	"custom_campaign_days": 5
}

This defines the minimum to create a custom campaign. The first line:

"custom_campaign_name": "Custom Campaign Name"

Is the internal name of the campaign. It is best to not reuse the same internal name as others, as this could lead to mix-ups. This is also the name that entries, videos, emails, and callers will need to be associated with the correct custom campaign.

The line:

"custom_campaign_desktop_name": "Campaign Desktop Name"

Provides the name that is shown on the desktop, if you wish to have a name similar to an existing custom campaign, provide it here, as it won't interfere.

The remaining lines:

"custom_campaign_icon_image_name": "campaign_desktop_icon.png",

"custom_campaign_days": 5

The first line defines the icon that shows up on the desktop to switch into your custom campaign.
And the second line defines how long your campaign should go for. Please be aware that this merely a way for the game to be able to save your progress, so you don't need to use all the days. However, if you are going to have more days than provided in the file, it will not be able to save your custom campaign progress.

If everything worked correct, then you should be able to see this on the desktop when you start the game:

Testing and Debugging

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