- Read this and related docs: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors
- Ask us questions
- Update this file (CONTRIBUTING.md) with your findings
- Generally, editing txt/md files can be done here on github. After editing, scroll down to write a commit title and commit description
- README.md
- doc/changelog.md
- Add things we've missed
- Compress things, especially when the same thing has been changed multiple times - it can be condensed down to just say how the thing currently works, instead of containing a detailed history of gameplay that no longer exists
- if you haven't done so yet, "Fork" this repo on github
- then clone your SpliceHack repo onto your computer. eg:
git clone https://github.com/RojjaCebolla/SpliceHack - move to a new branch:
git checkout -b FourNewGrenades - make your changes
- if you finish up a change, like adding a new item, "commit" that, then make a separate commit when you do something different, like changing an existing item.
- in other words, try to keep commits "atomic", here's why that will make your life easier: https://www.freshconsulting.com/insights/blog/atomic-commits/
- include succinct commit titles like "Add four new grenades" or "Remove lichen" or "Increase damage for skilled+ weapon use"
- push those changes to your repo:
git push --set-upstream upstream FourNewGrenades - open a Pull Request here, on NullCGT/SpliceHack
- alternate set of instructions for creating a PR: https://docs.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-pull-request
- https://github.com/NullCGT/SpliceHack/issues
- in the future, a good Issue template would be helpful, anyone can write it!
- This was a good project for one of the newer SpliceHack devs. Check out dat/castle.lua and in particular look at sections of the level that have a percent chance() of being in play. this shuffles a little bit of variety into what was otherwise, previously, a classic, static "DES" file.
- This is the documentation for the Lua format: https://github.com/NullCGT/SpliceHack/blob/Spl-R-1.2.0/doc/lua.adoc
- This describes the way DES files used to be done: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Des-file_format
- Some of the things that can be done in Lua were also possible with DES files, and the documentation in the DES page is a bit more detailed, so it's worth checking if you get stuck!
- Look in the dat/ folder for other Lua files that describe levels. If the map is one static thing without any variety, maybe work in a random chance for some grass, or a random chance to change the shape of a terrain feature.