BooBoo Hello World Tutorial
Topic: BooBoo
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By tremblin
2025-05-22, 6:15am
2025-05-22, 6:15am
In a nutshell:
1) Create a directory called My Game/data/scripts
2) Edit data/scripts/main.boo e.g.
3) Copy BooBoo.exe and SDL2.dll to "My Game"
You now have a BooBoo game...
4) Use compress_cpa and uncompress_cpa (just fixed it on Windows, will be fixed next version) if you want a single archive for all your game scripts/data
5) For other data files, check the documentation for directory structure. For example image_load loads from data/gfx/images, but you can have subdirectories like data/gfx/images/backgrounds, and when you call image_load you pass it "backgrounds/foo.png", ignoring the data/gfx/images part.
1) Create a directory called My Game/data/scripts
2) Edit data/scripts/main.boo e.g.
; keep clearing screen to a random colour
function draw
{
number r g b
rand r 0 255
rand g 0 255
rand b 0 255
clear r g b
}
3) Copy BooBoo.exe and SDL2.dll to "My Game"
You now have a BooBoo game...
4) Use compress_cpa and uncompress_cpa (just fixed it on Windows, will be fixed next version) if you want a single archive for all your game scripts/data
5) For other data files, check the documentation for directory structure. For example image_load loads from data/gfx/images, but you can have subdirectories like data/gfx/images/backgrounds, and when you call image_load you pass it "backgrounds/foo.png", ignoring the data/gfx/images part.
By tremblin
2025-05-22, 7:03am
2025-05-22, 7:03am
There are a few standard files you can supply...
data/shim5.json - you can supply some default parameters to your game like window title or window size etc. See the template included with BooBoo for how to use it
data/gfx/fonts/font.ttf - a default font used for some things
data/gfx/images/misc/icon[16,24,32,256].png - icons used when the program is running - to changed the file icon in file manager you will need to recompile BooBoo
C:\Users\PelvisJohnson\Saved Games\BooBoo\shim5.json - as a user you can override settings by placing them in your Saved Games\BooBoo\shim5.json file
data/shim5.json - you can supply some default parameters to your game like window title or window size etc. See the template included with BooBoo for how to use it
data/gfx/fonts/font.ttf - a default font used for some things
data/gfx/images/misc/icon[16,24,32,256].png - icons used when the program is running - to changed the file icon in file manager you will need to recompile BooBoo
C:\Users\PelvisJohnson\Saved Games\BooBoo\shim5.json - as a user you can override settings by placing them in your Saved Games\BooBoo\shim5.json file
By tremblin
2025-05-22, 8:39am
2025-05-22, 8:39am
Here is a link to a fixed version of uncompress_cpa.exe: uncompress_cpa.exe
The next version of BooBoo will have this included... the one in the current version doesn't work on Windows since mkdir can't create nested directories on Windows.
The next version of BooBoo will have this included... the one in the current version doesn't work on Windows since mkdir can't create nested directories on Windows.