A corpes worst nightmare is a calus.
Welcome to my new site. Here I will post my newest tutorials that I have created.
I have people on msn and pager always asking me how can they put their games on the hub.
So my first tutorial will be how to publish and make you game downloadable on the hub.
If there is any other tutorials that you would want to see just email me or IM me at:
killastorm1@hotmail.com or if you have a byond membership page me at Calus CoRPS
Please scroll down to look at the tutorials.
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Things you will need for: How to make a Hub
1.A game, if you do not have a game you should not be looking at this tutorial.
2.(Optional)A forum, Byond provides you with a descent forum for you when you create a hub, but if you have one of your own you can use it.
If you have all the items shown above then you are ready to begin this tutorial.
The first thing you need to do is to open up a dream seeker window, go to browser, and go to the Byond home page or you can gp and open up Internet Explorer and go to http://www.byond.com
Now you must go to, "Create Games", on the top left hand side under the Byond row.
Go to, "Publish Games", and click, "New Hub Entry"
You should now see 5 things you can pick from with bubble right next to them. Right now we are creating a game so check
the bubble "Game or other item for player".
Now the next step we can skip becasue we do not need to use any of them.
The, "hide from hub contents/search lists", is for hiding your hub so no one can see it, but we want to make a visable hub.
So skip this step and click continue.
Now we are at the part where you name your hub. What your screen should say is, "Yourkeyname.________". Where the open space is at you should
go and type your games name there. Make sure you spell every thing correctly. After you are done with that press continue.
Description is where you can describe what your game is about. If my game was a space shooter, then I may type,
Come join this exciting space shooter frenzy where you can kill, level up, and buy new armor and weapons. Press
continue after you are finished.
We are half way done with are Hub, we are on step 5 out of 10. Right now we are at, Forum URl. Here either type the forum url
for your game or just leave it blank for a basic byond forum.
We now have two choices. A optional Info URL and Info Text. I will explain, Info URL, first.
A Info URL is optional, it is for your use of putting a website so people can join for your game. You do not need it.
A Info Text is important. If someone sees your game hosted, reads the description, and wants to know more about your game,
they will enter to read more if you have anything. Here you put more information about your game but not to much if it is
in alpha testing phase. The reason for that is because you dont want any one to steal your game idea. You can also put Admins, Gms, and the Creators of the game here.
After you are done with this step press continue.
This next step is optional, but I recommend it to people who want to have a nice looking hub. Here you can upload pictures for your
games hub. Do not worry if you dislike like the pictures that you may have uploaded because you canalways change it any time, even if your game is being hosted.
Wow, we are now on step 8! See how fast this is? This step is to see if your game is in its begining stages which is Apha,
still under development which is Beta, or if your game is done which is Polished. Your game is probaly not Polished.
Look how far we are now, step 9 of 10. This next step is optional, but it is the Download from URL. This so you can make your game
downloadable so other people can download it to host. This is a good idea if you can not host. If you do want to do this skip it and I have a tutorial for it more towards the bottom. Now we are the last and final step.
The Login URL is optional also. It is when the user connects to this "Login URL" through the hub,
Dream Seeker will direct them to your game. This is helpful if you host using Dream Daemon because if no one is on your game and it is being hosted, then it will not show on the hub. The Login URL will be on the hub so people can just click it to join the hidden hosted game. After you are done with that press continue.
We are almost done just scroll down to Display Hub version, type in what version you are currently at for your games development, then press submit.
You can now go here any time and change things put always press submit.
You probaly saying right now, "Wow, this was easy, am I really done right now?" The answer is no, we need one more thing to do.
Right now we need to make it so when you host your game that it will show it on the hub. Open up your Dream Maker and open your game.
You can put this coding where ever you want but I normaly put it on my main file, so go to your main code file, go to the top, and type this there:
world/hub = "Your-key-here-with-no-spaces.Your-game-here-with-no-spaces"
Example:
world/hub = "CalusCoRPS.SpaceShooter"
Now go host your game to test if the hub works, if it doesnt re-read the steps to see what you did wrong.
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Things you will need for: How to make a Hub download
1.A game, if you do not have a game you should not be looking at this tutorial.
2.A site that you can upload you games to.
If you have all the items shown above then you are ready to begin this tutorial.
First thing you must do is to go to the publish section where you can edit your games hub at. Then Select and copy the Hub ID.
Ok, now go open your Dream Maker, go to Build and Package Files, and Check the bubble that says world executable files and press next.
Now this is where the Hub ID you copy down come in handy. Go to Hub ID and paste the text you copied. Then check the clean complie bubble
and you should get a alert that says something like cleaning out unused entries. Press yes, wait about 3 seconds, and another alert
will popup saying success. You are now half way done, now go to the site where you can upload your files to. I recommend angelfire
because I am using it for the tutorial, but you can also use sites like freewebs.
Now after you logged into the site where you are going to upload your files, go to the webshell or the page that you can upload your files to.
There should be a place on the page saying something like File Upload. So go and click browse... find the folder that is zipped
that we did earlier and upload it. Now for the next step I am going to do is for angel fire, I do not know if other sites are like this.
You should now have your file uploaded, go to the top, copy your site addressand go paste it to a notepad, then make a "/"
after it and typeyour-game-name-in-lowercase-no-space.zip
Example:
http://www.angelfire.com/ak68/calustutorials/spaceshooter.zip
Now go and select the address, copy it, and go back to Dream Seeker to your Hub Edit page.
You may need to scroll down a little, then go to Download URL and paste the code. Change the Hub Version so the download will work and Display version if you want, then press submit.
Now you have finished making your game downloadable. Test to see if your game works, then your finished.
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