Dot World Maker - Standalone is on GITHUB

[a_bertrand]

As promised, I released an open source (GPL V3) version of the engine. It has all the features you find on the online version, beside one artset which could have copyright issues if I put it on GITHUB and it doesn't allows multi-games hosting.

Beside that, you get full source access to the server and client side (typescript), the tools to compile it, and the pre-compiled code to run directly. The repository contains also the info needed to install it on your server.

If you want to contribute to the repo, let me know and I shall add you as contributor.

The repo can be found here (clone or download it)
https://github.com/alain-bertrand/Dot-World-Maker

I hope you will enjoy it and use it

[hallsofvallhalla]

This is awesome!

[a_bertrand]

Thanks! Let me know if you have any issues or if you get it running. As I said I still have some ideas for it.

[Jackolantern]

Wow, very nice! I will probably wait until the weekend before grabbing it and really going through it, but I am looking forward to it

[a_bertrand]

Thanks Jacko. BTW Could you put it on your engine list?

[hallsofvallhalla]

Same here. Reserving some time this weekend to get started.

[Jackolantern]

Thanks Jacko. BTW Could you put it on your engine list?

Good idea! But to be clear, is this link in addition to the normal, website-based DWM? Or do you want it to replace it with the Github link? Not sure how you want to organize it.

[a_bertrand]

Well... that's a good question Jacko. Maybe simply modify the entry to say you can have an hosted service or an open source self hosted engine.

[hallsofvallhalla]

Got it working on my localhost. Works great so far!

One thing I would recommend in the installation documentation is a little description on NPM install. While i knew what to do I could see where someone with less Nodejs experience might get confused. Maybe adding
open up a terminal or dos box (cmd) and navigate to where you unzipped or installed DWM. Type NPM install . This lookes at the package json file and looks under the dependency section for all the extras DWM needs to run. It will auto install them.

I can do a video on installing and port forwarding for home servers.

[a_bertrand]

Thanks for the comment. I was thinking about an installing script (one for linux and one for windows) too. But before spending yet more time I wanted to see if there is any interest in it