Introduction

How to install and run Game Baker:

Please read the section for your Operating System.

Windows

nb - Game Baker has not been tested on Windows

• download & install Python from www.python.org (no registration download), or from Active State www.activestate.com/Products/activepython/ (free registration, all fields are optional, can by ignored) which has improved integration with Windows.

• download & install PyGame from www.pygame.org

• download & install PyYAML from www.pyyaml.org

Now download the latest release of Game Baker. Unzip it and place it in a directory anywhere you like. You should be able to run gamebaker.py from where you have put the game-baker directory.

Mac OSX

nb - Game Baker has not been tested on OSX - I am unfamiliar with OSX / BSD installations - anyone care to help write this?

Linux (Ubuntu)

- this was tested using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)

Go to the latest Downloads page, and

- If this does not work

first, ensure you have pygame and pyyaml installed:

sudo apt-get install python-pygame
sudo apt-get install python-yaml

Now download the latest release of Game Baker. You can also use the version in the svn repository.

You can unzip this directory anywhere. Now try running gamebaker.py using the python interpreter.

To Try the demos you should run the python scripts in the demos folder.

Linux (general)

Game Baker requires Python (which should already be installed), PyGame and PyYaml (python-pygame and python-yaml in debian repositories).

- Ensure you have these installed and up to date. You may also require PIL (the python imaging library) as it adds extra file handling functionality to PyGame.

Now download the latest release of Game Baker. You can also use the version in the svn repository.

You can unzip this directory anywhere. Now try running gamebaker.py using the python interpreter.

To Try the demos you should run the python scripts in the demos folder.