https://github.com/nyuichi/launcher

A Simple Game Launcher
https://github.com/nyuichi/launcher

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A Simple Game Launcher

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nyuichi/launcher
• Owner: nyuichi
• Created: 2011-04-27T14:15:25.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-05-14T02:35:07.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-30T13:24:14.590Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Java
• Homepage: http://www.npca.jp/
• Size: 617 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.org

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README

        
* Summary

  This launcher was written in order to make game exhibition at school festival

  more gourgeous and decrease NPCA members' labor.

  

  Below are the main functions:

  - Supports addition of games.

  - Records the statistics how many times each game is launched.

  

* Requirements

  - Screen resolution: 1440x900

  - Java SE Runtime 5

* Build

  You can build and run the launcher just typing following command

  in the top directory.

   $ ant

  Successfully built, the Launcher will be invoked automatically.

 

* Setup

  When the launcher started, it scans /data/ directory first. data must have

  following structure:

:  data/

:    game1/

:      run.bat

:      thumb.jpg

:      something-relates-to-game-1

:      ...

:    game2/

:      run.bat

:      thumb.jpg

:      something-relates-to-game-2

:      ...

:    game3/

:      run.bat

:      thumb.jpg

:      something-relates-to-game-3

:      ...

  The directory name will be its game's title.

  All thumb.jpg's size must be 400x300.

  Also, the launcher execute 'run.bat' to run that game. You must write

  commands which launch the game with *absolute path* on the file run.bat.

  Other files in each directory are just ignored. So you can place the body of

  the game in each directory.

  *Do not place something but accepted formed directories beneath data*.

* Hacking

This section describes the structure of the launcher.

** Directory Structure

   The necessary files to launch the launcher are just Launcher.jar and data

   directory. You can remove those other files and directories once you have

   built the launcher.

   - README.org

     This file.

   - build.xml

     The specification for ant.

   - src/

     This contains the all sources.

   - MANIFEST

     A file to make a jar.

   - data/

     This directory contains games. See /Setup/ section.

   - Launcher.jar

     The body of the launcher. This file will be created after build.

   - build/

     This directory will be created after build. Files under this are used only

     to create the launcher.jar, so you can safely delete this directory if you

     want.

** Ant

   

   Ant is used as a MAKE system. Some options are defined beforehand.

   - Build only

      $ ant build

   - Cleaning

      $ ant clean

   - Make a jar

      $ ant jar

   - Run

      $ ant run

* Misc

  The Launcher outputs the statistics of how many times each game was launched

  and how long it was played in an encoding Shift-JIS, so you may better use

  'iconv' to convert the encodings.

* Credit

  This launcher was developed by Yuichi 'wasabiz' Nishiwaki.

  Contact:

  - Twitter: @wasabiz

  - E-mail: ffiannkks at gmail.com

  - Blog: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/wasabiz

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