phazonxiii / game_launcher

A simple game launcher made with Godot for developers to showcase their games

Game launcher

A simple game launcher for developers to showcase their games. Especially useful during gaming conventions for example.

⚠ It's not aimed as being shipped with your game on Steam or other platforms.

How to add games

1. If not present, create a folder called games next to the executable.
2. Inside, create a folder for each game you want. The name of the folder will be the name of the game.
3. Place your executable, capsule image, background image and description.txt
4. The game executable will be launched by the launcher
5. The capsule must be named capsule with the following extensions supported: jpg, jpeg, png
6. The background image bust be named bg with the following extensions supported: jpg, jpeg, png
7. In description.txt, put the description you want to see below your game capsule in the launcher

Here's an example folder
game_launcher.exe
├── games
│ ├── Game name
│ │ ├── game_executable.exe
│ │ ├── capsule.jpg
│ │ └── bg.jpg

You can also check the Fake folder to see a game example

How to navigate

Navigate using keyboard or gamepad using the usual keys used for navigation (arrows keys, enter).

alt+enter to toggle fullscreen

Limitations

Right now, the launcher is only working with windows. Supporting linux and mac shouldn't be complicated, we just need to detect the correct extensions or file types.

Development

For development, you can use the games folder present in the project using the same configuration as explained above.

💁‍♂️ About me

Full time indie gamedev. You can find me everywhere 👇

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