StackMachine SDK for LÖVE

The StackMachine SDK is responsible for intgrating StackMachine and the LOVE game engine. This SDK handles automaticac updates, crash reporting, and player metrics.

Usage

API Documentation

Automatic updates

These steps assume it's time for an update

Windows

• Download the new game executable, game.exe, for the release into the updates directory inside the save directory under new names
• Move active game file to a oldgame.exe, also inside the updates directory
• Now move the downloaded game.exe into the same place when the game was launched.
• Relaunch the game

OSX

• Download the latest zipped app
• Unzip the app into the save game directory
• Remove the current app
• Move the freshly downloaded app to the old location
• Open it up

appcast.json

The SDK checks for updates by requesting a JSON appcast from StackMachine

{
  "title": "Sampel Game Appcast",
  "link": "http://cloud.example.com/appcast.json",
  "description": "Sample Description",
  "language": "en",
  "items": [{
    "title": "Version 0.1.0", 
    "published": "Sat, 03 Aug 2013 20:28:21 -0000",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "platforms": [{
      "name": "macosx",
      "files": [{
        "url": "http://cloud.examples.com/releases/v0.1.0/game-osx.zip",
        "length": 57980508
      }]
    },{
      "name": "windows",
      "files": [{
        "url": "http://cloud.example.com/releases/v0.1.0/x86/game.exe",
        "length": 54379227
      }]
    }]
  }]
}

Crash Reports

TOOD

Player Metrics

TODO