technomancy / fennel-tic80-game

Boilerplate code for a TIC-80 game using Fennel lisp.

Fennel and TIC-80 game template

Boilerplate code for a simple TIC-80 game using Fennel lisp.

Requeriments

• GNU/Linux or OSX
• Install tic80 and fennel packages from your package manager

Usage

Development

• $ ./utils.sh -c to compile all Fennel source files;
• $ ./utils.sh -r to run the compiled file with TIC-80;
• $ ./utils.sh -c -r to do both at once;
• If you need to add more files, create them inside the source directory and include the source files in SOURCE_FILES array inside utils.sh.

Export to HTML

• Run your game with $ ./utils.sh -r;
• Press ESC to open the prompt;
• Enter export html and save the zip file wherever you want, for example in build/;
• Quit the game and unzip the files.

Test the game on the browser

If you want to test the game you have to serve the exported files. In this example we will use python, but you can chose whatever method you prefer.

• Go to the terminal and change directory (cd) to where you unzipped the files;
• Using python enter $ pythom -m http.server;
• Visit http://0.0.0.0:8000/ on your browser to test your game.