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This section briefly outlines various thorny paths from starting QSP game development (using various tools and instruments) to implementing and launching the game for the end player.

Writing Games​

QSP game developers write games in:

  • QGen
  • Editors
    • Sublime Text
    • VS Code
    • Any text editor

If using Sublime Text, the JAD_for_QSP extension is used for code checking.

If using VS Code, the Qsp.FSharp.VsCode extension is used when writing code.

QGen converts source code into a binary game file.

Raw source files written in editors are either left as-is or converted to binary using one of the utilities:

  • QSP CLI
  • TXT2GAM

Some utilities allow converting binary game files back to text format.

Playing Games​

Raw source files or binaries are played in players:

  • Classic
  • Navigator
  • QSpider

Classic and Navigator use the QSPLib interpreter.

QSpider uses qsp-wasm-engine, which is a wrapper around the QSPLib interpreter.

Game Distribution​

Later, the game developer publishes game resources to:

  • QSP catalog
  • GitHub Pages using QSpider Standalone

Now the player can:

  • Download the game from the QSP catalog and play it in players

  • Launch the game with QSpider

    There you can either:

    • Open a .qsp file from your device

    • Add a game from the library and run it

    • Run a game via direct link

      • Game from catalog

        If you know the game ID (for example, 285 — "Ballad of the Hero"), you can run it like this:

        https://qspfoundation.github.io/qspider/?catalogId=285

      • From a separate source

        For example, there's a game "Ballad of the Hero" located at the following link:

        https://aleksversus.github.io/QSP-storage/game/heroballad/heroballad.qsp

        This link can be loaded into QSpider:

        https://qspfoundation.github.io/qspider/?config=https://aleksversus.github.io/QSP-storage/game/heroballad/heroballad.qsp

        And go to it

  • Go to a link on GitHub, itch.io, etc., and just start playing

The best option to make life easier for both the game developer and player is to upload the game to a website and give the player a direct link to the game. This way you can avoid +100500 problems.