pcornier / TIC80-boilerplate

A boilerplate for my TIC-80 projects

TIC-80 boilerplate

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This project contains:

• a very basic Entity Component System: libs/ecs.lua
• a messaging system: libs/bus.lua
• a state manager: libs/state.lua

Look at the spec directory for more details or look at the demo project there: https://github.com/pcornier/tic80-mini-platformer

Setup

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First, edit Makefile and adjust these 3 parameters:

• CART: the name of you cartridge
• LINUX: the path to the TIC-80 directory if you are using Linux
• ANDROID: the path to the TIC-80 directory if you are using Android

There's no WINDOWS parameter currently but feel free to fork the repo!

Then

• run make data to extract data from the TIC-80 cartridge. You will need to install csplit, which is part of coreutils package.
• run make to generate the cartridge with data. The generated cartridge will be copied to the TIC-80 directory.

On Android, I recommend the two apps Termux and DroidEdit. Termux will provide you with the two linux commands makeand csplit. DroidEdit is a nice little code editor that can connect Termux through ssh in order to trigger the make command remotely!