The easiest way to run these examples is via snap, the following should install the engine and run these examples using the gateau menu.

snap install gamecake
gamecakejam

Some quick and dirty (:QAD:) gamecake games, built quickly as test packages. You could try and play them or you could take them and use them as a base for your own creations. Play with them, change the grafix, have fun, release them, that's why they exist.

This is my attempt to recreate the experience of typing in games from magazines in the 80s. It was much more fun to fiddle with the code than to play the games.

The code lives in the lua directory of each game, change it and run it using gamecake. the following will bake any art assets into the data directory ( from the art directory ) and then run the code.

cd lonelybird		# enter the project folder
gamecake bake.lua	# build the art assets
gamecake			# run the game

You will need to bake at least once before anything will run.

Alternatively you can use the gateau menu to launch each of these projects.

./make
./run