Game Developer Studio
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Maarten Pennings, 2009 jan 19


Introduction
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Game developer studio lets you develop a game, using drag and drop
techniques, and filling out property sheets. The game is (cross-)
compiled for the Nintendo DS hardware platform.


Version
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Version 0.2.* - Proof of concept

This version only allows one to manage a palette, add tiles (import their
bitmaps), add actors (couple them to tiles), add event handlers, and add
levels (and fill them with actors). Unfortunately, it is still not possible
to add actions to the event handler. As such GameDS is still rather useless.


System Requirements
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Has been tested on Windows XP.
We expect it to run on Windows Vista as well, but we have no proof of that.
We do not expect it to run on Win9x (but maybe it is just fixing launcher.bat).


Installation
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To install Game Developer Studio, just unpack it in any directory.
Unpacking can be done by double clicking the archive (it's a so-called
self-extracting archive), or by downloading 7z (http://www.7-zip.org/)
and using that to unpack.

Typically, unpack the archive in C:\Program Files\GameDS

To start the program run GameDS.exe (in eg C:\Program Files\GameDS\)

Note: There is no installer. No files will be copied to far away
places in your directory structure (eg C:\Windows), nor will this
application add anything to the registry, or to autoexec.bat.


Uninstall
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Simply remove the GameDS directory and all its subdirectories.


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