Electron (HTML5) Executables Helper For Windows / Linux / Mac
adent42
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If you need a Linux or Windows executable (or you need the flexibility of extending your game with the HTML5 delegate API), then we have a new project for you!
https://github.com/gamesalad/gs-electron-forge
I threw this together a few weeks ago on a weekend, but wasn't able to get it tested in a Windows environment until now.
I'm not 100% sure how to use this to generate a full installable package yet, but it does startup a window / mac EXE when you run the right commands.
Enjoy!
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Awesome. I'll pull this and try to merge my parallel work to it.
Feel free to contribute a pull request! Just note the MIT license, which is why the GameSalad engine isn't in the codebase.
Be sure not to add anything proprietary or if you're using a 3rd party library, try to do it via package.json
I'll look forward to your pull request!
Hey, just wanted to chime in -- this works well, bundled my HTML5 project without any issues or big performance problems. I've tried other HTML5 wrappers and I usually get big frame rate drops -- this project is very CPU heavy and runs through loops of tables constantly. I've only tested the OSX binary, but I'll try a windows binary soon as well.
I'm not able to get this to make a Windows exe.
All I did was change the "darwin" to "win32" but I'm guessing there's more needed, or I somehow managed to screw up a 1 step process!
Any help would be much appreciated, some awards thing is wanting an exe for judges. Thanks!
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@Armelline, could you DM me your package.json so I can take a look?
We'll try bake this into a publishing target sometime in the next couple of months, but I see if I can help right away.
Sure thing, thanks! I just used the provided one with the change mentioned in the instuctions. If more changes were needed, I lacked the expertise to know or make them :D
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While you're waiting for me to answer, take a look here: https://www.electronforge.io/config/makers/squirrel.windows
Thanks. This is all going way over my head but trying to understand it!
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I got things working using the method described in this thread: https://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/89397/a-long-way-home-released-on-steam
Good enough for my fairly limited needs!
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I'll definitely take a closer look at the repository and explore the functionalities it offers. If I have any questions or need assistance with generating a full installable package, I'll reach out to you for guidance.
Once again, thank you for sharing this resource, and I look forward to exploring its potential for my game development projects.
This app is the only one I could get to work. The github points to an alternative called Electrify but I couldn't get that to work.
GitHub - nwutils/Web2Executable: Uses NW.js to generate "native" apps for already existing web apps.
https://github.com/nwutils/Web2ExecutableProcess was super simple with Web2Exe though. Then hardest part ended up being fixing the assets.js file to remove all the m4a references.
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I'll definitely take a closer look at the repository and explore the functionalities it offers. If I have any questions or need assistance with generating a full installable package, I'll reach out to you for guidance.
Once again, thank you for sharing this resource, and I look forward to exploring its potential for my game development projects.
Hi @adent42 I think this is something that should be read, I did it and although I do not master the subject, it seems quite promising and from what I understand it can mean an alternative with a future compared to the tools that have been used.
https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/construct-official-blog-1/new-architecture-publishing-1864
I need to read in detail, but for the types of things they're trying to solve, having a native GameSalad player would be better.
The electron layers was more for expediency for users who can't wait for us.
Construct is making it's own considerations because they are an HTML5 only engine AFAIK.
Thanks for your answer... reading I thought that this could be used to package the html5 in an exe in a more efficient and modern way than with electron or nw... and with maintenance at the hands of Microsoft... it sounds very interesting how quickly it allowed them to integrate with Steam and Epic.
But as I said, I fall short on these topics, so I thought it was good to pass it on to you who are more involved in this... for now, it sounds interesting :)
For the short term HTML5 engine integration, I might take a look at Tauri though, that does look interesting if it's faster than electron.
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