Running Dexflow

This page will walk you through all the files and your first time running the game.

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Your folder will now look something like this:

Let’s briefly go over the files and folders:

game: Folder that houses the framework code. You won’t have to interact with this unless you want to do crazy stuff.
lib: Irrelevant.
resources: Folder that houses all the resources of the game: art, sound, animations etc.
world: Folder that houses information specific to LDTK.
autotile_reformat.bat: Tool that allows you to translate Essentials Autotiles into Ulix Autotiles.
compile_world.bat: Tool that compiles any new changes you made to the world in LDTK to Ulix.
develop.bat: Shortcut for first compiling the world and afterwards playing the game.
game.exe: Your game!
python3.dll: Irrelevant.
python38.dll: Irrelevant
streamingsave.usave: The current savegame. Delete if you want to start the playthrough over.
world.ldtkc: Compiled version of the LDTK world (generated via compile_world.bat).

Playing your game for the first time

Before you can run your game, you need to compile the game world (ldtk world). You can do this by running compile_world.bat. Afterwards, play your game by running game.exe.

Note: If you are doing rapid iterations on your game world, you might want to use develop.bat instead. This is a shortcut for first compiling the world and afterwards playing the game.

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