Get started

1. Get prerequisites

Tides of Revival development is currently limited to Windows. You need the following software. (or equivalent)

Python 3.9 or thereabouts

https://www.python.org/downloads/
During installation, make sure to tick "Add to path" on the first screen.

Git For Windows

https://gitforwindows.org/

TortoiseSVN

https://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html
Needed for content.

VS Code

https://code.visualstudio.com/download
After installation, and github cloning (see below), install all recommended workspace extensions.

Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
Seems like it's needed for the C++ VS Code extension for debugging.

Fork

https://git-fork.com/

2. Get the repos

Git

Clone https://github.com/Srekel/tides-of-revival.git

SVN Content

Clone (ask Anders for details)
Put it inside the tides-of-revival repo, so that content is parallel to README.md.

SVN Source

Clone (ask Anders for details)
Put it parallel to the the tides-of-revival repo.

3. Initialize

Run full_pull -f
At the step where zig is downloaded, make sure to extract the zip into where you have zig on your path.
This will first sync all of the project's repos and dependencies, then build the game world.
Wait, it will take a while.

4. Start the game!

You should be able to debug it from within VS Code.