@super-puzzlescript/puzzlescript
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Compile and run PuzzleScript games
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PuzzleScript as a JavaScript Module
Compile and run PuzzleScript games through a simple JavaScript API, enabling development in an alternative environment to the PuzzleScript editor.
Consider using this package as part of the Super PuzzleScript development environment.
Usage
Available as a UMD module, it can be imported by a module bundler (e.g. Webpack) or with an HTML <script> element.
With a module bundler
Install the package with npm or yarn:
npm install @super-puzzlescript/puzzlescriptImport and create an instance of the PuzzleScript class and call the compile method with your game code:
import PuzzleScript from 'puzzlescript'
import gameSource from './main.ps'
window.onload = () => {
const puzzleScript = new PuzzleScript()
puzzleScript.compile(gameSource)
}After bundling with your module bundler of choice, add the bundle to a HTML document containing a <canvas> element with ID gameCanvas:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Game</title>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="gameCanvas"></canvas>
<script src="bundle.js"></script>
</body>
</html>With a <script> element
Add a <script> element that imports the PuzzleScript module and then instantiate the global PuzzleScript class and call the compile method with your game source code. For example, we can fetch the module from unpkg (replace X.Y.Z in the module URL with the latest version):
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Game</title>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="gameCanvas"></canvas>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@super-puzzlescript/[email protected]/dist/umd/puzzlescript.min.js"></script>
<script>
const gameSource = `
INSERT GAME CODE HERE
`
window.onload = () => {
const puzzleScript = new PuzzleScript()
puzzleScript.compile(gameSource)
}
</script>
</body>
</html>Wrapping PuzzleScript
This package wraps the original PuzzleScript source with no modifications. This ensures we don't diverge from PuzzleScript and makes it easier to keep up to date with any PuzzleScript changes.
The downside of this approach is that the PuzzleScript source code has a lot of global state and other implicit dependencies, which makes this package slightly leaky. For example, the level state must be available as a property of the global window object for the PuzzleScript engine to run correctly. Additionally, this also means that the package sadly can't be distributed as an ECMAScript module, which always run in strict mode and therefore cannot expose global state to modules that import them.
Another issue with wrapping PuzzleScript in this way is that it depends a small part of the CodeMirror code editor for compilation, which means we must bundle the entire CodeMirror source code with this package. This increases the package's file size quite dramatically.
It'll certainly be possible to work around these issues, perhaps with additional tricks in this package or by contributing to PuzzleScript itself, but for now the goal is to make something that works even if it's a little less than ideal.