Time to make my first game which will be the 2d puzzle game with two independently controlled players. Before that though I’m going to update my development setup, see if I can make an actual local server using nodeJS and Express and look into using webpack for bundling things and for automatically reloading the browser page whenever I make a change to the files.
After a week of messing about finding the best way to approach this I did initially find this article here that helped me wrap my head around webpack since it’s not something I had much knowledge of before. When I got to the end of this blog however and got everything working I found out that the webpack Hot Module Replacement ( The bit that refreshes the browser) doesn’t actually work with HTML files currently.
So I had to look for a new plan and conveniently enough I came across something called Webpack Dev Server while I was searching which does the work of Express and also has it’s own built in hot reloading feature that refreshes the browser when HTML files are changed this time. To help me get thing set up I found this helpful blog post and tweaked a few things based on it so I now have a development template setup for future games.
This all took a bit longer than I expected so I’m going to be happy to finally start making some games.
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