Brighterscript Game Engine

An object oriented game engine for the Roku, written in Brighterscript, and (SOON!) available via ROPM.

This project is designed to be used with VScode.

This was originally forked from Roku-gameEngine by Austin Sojka, and converted into Brighterscript. This work owes a lot to this original project!

Introduction

The purpose of this project is to make it easy to develop games for the Roku in an object oriented fashion. Similar to how you would with an engine such as Phaser, HaxeFlixel, Gamemaker or Unity (minus any visual software that is).

Cloning and Running Examples

The Brighterscript Game Engine public repository is on Github

Clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/markwpearce/brighterscript-game-engine.git

This project includes various example Roku apps in the examples directory. To run them, you will need a Roku and have it set up properly for doing development. See: https://developer.roku.com/en-ca/docs/developer-program/getting-started/developer-setup.md.

To run the examples:

Install dependencies:

cd brighterscript-game-engine
npm install

You will need to "install" the brighterscript-game-engine in the examples directories. You can do this by running ropm install in each example (e.g. ./examples/snake) or by using the handy script:

npm run prepare-examples

You can manually build the examples from the command line and manually add the zip files to your Roku:

npm run build-examples

The above command will generate example .zip files like ./examples/asteroids/out/asteroids.zip

Open the Workspace in VS Code:

code brighterscript-game-engine.code-workspace

We recommend you install the great Brightscript Language vscode extension.

Create/edit a .env file to specify the details for you target Roku device:

ROKU_USERNAME=<roku development username - default is rokudev>
ROKU_PASSWORD=<roku development password>
ROKU_HOST=<local IP address of the target roku>

Then simply run one of the Debug configurations from the Debug tab.

Installation

NOTE - Not available yet from ropm!

Use ropm:

ropm install brighterscript-game-engine

Suggestion - use a shorter prefix (we use bge in the documentation):

ropm install bge@npm:brighterscript-game-engine

Documentation

Documentation can be found here