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.
- If not present, create a folder called games next to the executable.
- Inside, create a folder for each game you want. The name of the folder will be the name of the game.
- Place your executable, capsule image, background image and description.txt
- The game executable will be launched by the launcher
- The capsule must be named capsule with the following extensions supported: jpg, jpeg, png
- The background image bust be named bg with the following extensions supported: jpg, jpeg, png
- In description.txt, put the description you want to see below your game capsule in the launcher
- Optionally, consider adding a config.ini for advanced setup.
Here's an example folder
game_launcher.exe
├── games
│ ├── Game name
│ │ ├── game_executable.exe
│ │ ├── capsule.jpg
│ │ ├── bg.jpg
│ │ └── config.ini
You can also check the Fake folder to see a game example
A config.ini can be used to customize a game. Using the config file you can set extended information such as release date, platforms, and even a QR code.
See the example config_fake.ini file in the Fake folder for a full list of properties.
Note: If used, the "description" key will override the description.txt.
The launcher itself is configured using launcher_config.ini.
shortcut_kill_game: global shortcut used to kill a launched game. Requires shortcut_listener.py to be running. See [shortcut configuration](Shortcut configuration)fullscreen: true|false, start the launcher in fullscreenwindow_title: if windowed, the title you see in the title bar
shortcut_listener.py is a script to listen to a specific shortcut to kill any active game started by the launcher. It communicates with the launcher using websockets (yes a bit overkill).
Requires python 3.10.x with the following package asyncio, websockets, keyboard
pip install asyncio, websockets, keyboard
The python script will be launched automatically by the app if you have a shortcut_kill_game set in launcher_config.ini.
Navigate using keyboard or gamepad using the usual keys used for navigation (arrows keys, enter).
alt+enter to toggle fullscreen of the launcher
Right now, the launcher is only working with windows and linux. Supporting mac shouldn't be complicated but I don't have a mac nor experience with macOS. If you want to help, please see #2.
For development, you can use the games folder present in the project using the same configuration as explained above.
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