[Kde-games-devel] Sharing levels

onpon4 onpon4 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 01:47:35 UTC 2012


Hm, that opening paragraph is a bit oddly worded. To be clear, my
script only saves tar files; I lost track of what I was writing, and
the mention of Zip or binary files was to mention other possibilities
for sharable file formats.

On 11/15/12, onpon4 <onpon4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I always thought it ought to be easier to share levels in KGoldrunner,
> since otherwise the level editor is kind of weak. So I wrote a script
> that will make it much easier by packing individual levels into their
> own files (Tar or Zip archives, or perhaps binaries) which can then be
> unpacked on another computer.
>
> This is what I have so far. It's in Python, and it can either be used
> from the command line or from another Python script by being imported
> as a module:
>
> http://lrforever.netii.net/games/grg.py
>
> I chose to simply pack the necessary files into a standard Tar file
> with the extension ".grg" ("GoldRunner Game").
>
> Other than being in the command-line, it works seamlessly. I packed my
> little brother's levels with it as a test, and there are no problems:
>
> http://www.mediafire.com/?5n6cmnwvhip2pow
>
> I would like to hear any comments about this script. Is there any way
> a form of this could end up in KGoldrunner itself?
>


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