Newbie contributor/game dev questions

[Shen Sat]

Hey everyone 😄

I'm a web developer by trade and a game developer in my spare time. I'd like to learn more about game dev by contributing to CorsixTH. I loved the original game, and it's already been quite fun poking my nose around the code 🐷

I have two questions:

1. I was thinking about picking up this feature enhancement. Usually when building a feature for a web application, I can "set up" the web application locally in a given state and then test the new feature out using the local web application. Is there a way to do that for CorsixTH? Another way to put it: to develop and test the aforementioned feature, I'd ideally need to have CorsixTH running with a GP office and a GP and a couple of patinets, one inside the office and one queueing - is there a way to have this state automatically set up without having to create all the entities manually via the UI?
2. I love writing tests for web applications. I'd like to learn how to write tests for games. Are there any suitable test-related issues I can work on?

Many thanks!

Shen

[Shen Sat]

To add to point 1: I'm wondering how you all develop features for CorsisTH. What does your game developement loop look like? When you make a change in the code, how do you quickly test that the change is working?

[Lewri]

Greetings! Glad to hear your interest.

Sorry for a slow response, this communication stream often gets neglected :(

It's best to usually discuss with us on Discord or Matrix (both talk to each other in some rooms). We no longer have an IRC Channel.

Discord link: https://discord.gg/Mxeztvh

Matrix Space: https://matrix.to/#/#CorsixTH:matrix.org

Alternatively you can post on the issue directly if you like.

As for the setup query, you likely can make this setup easily from Level 1 then save it, it shouldn't take long. Alternatively, some of our newer issues have savegames that are likely still usable as a starting block for testing.

[Stephen E. Baker]

Welcome Shen;

If you're interested in setting up tests, that's an area that's often
neglected and could use attention. We have some tests for the lua code
as seen here https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH/tree/master/CorsixTH/Luatest
and a very small number of C++ tests in
https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH/tree/master/CorsixTH/CppTest

Tests were added late in development, so a lot of code isn't
particularly well suited for testability. Some improvements in that
regard as well as overall coverage would be welcome; just make sure to
talk over any major refactor ideas and get consensus before investing
a lot of time writing changes that may not be accepted.

If you'd rather jump into feature work or fixing bugs, the place to
look is our github issue tracker. I think the issue you picked may be
a little challenging as a first ticket due to the number of
interactions / complexity of the action queue. We should be able to
help pick something not too daunting to start with.

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