Make Your Own Game
The full creator path is documented in the repo — this page is the illustrated overview.
- Creator getting-started — setup → open Meadowbrook → edit → play-test → validate → export
- Your first game, step by step — a one-quest game: a new species, a map corner, an NPC event, a scripted gate, a ruleset knob
1. Copy a sample. Projects are plain folders of JSON + Tiled TMX. Never edit the originals — copy samples/starter and open the copy.
2. Open it in Studio (from a repo checkout: python tools/run.py --studio). Everything is browsable and editable through forms generated from the same schemas the engine validates with — an invalid record cannot be saved, and a problems panel runs softlock lints over your world:
3. Paint maps, author events, script behavior. The Studio Tour shows each workspace.
4. Play-test in one click. Studio launches your game as a separate process with an isolated save — your real saves never collide with test runs.
5. Ship it. python tools/export_game.py --project my-game produces a folder a player just runs — see Export and Share.
The faithful Pokémon Red build and the samples run on the same engine binary — the differences are entirely in project data: species, moves, the type chart, maps, story events, battle formulas, menu vocabulary, even the logical screen size. If the toolkit can express Kanto and Bramblewick, there's a lot of room in between for yours. See Engine Capabilities.