I really want to get into modding GDT but I don’t know how to start. If anyone knows can you please tell me how to start?
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@nathan00107 well, you could go open up someones source code and base it off that, or you could learn javascript/ html and code it by scratch
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To begin with, you need to know Javascript and some HTML. If you don’t already know them, there are good HTML tutorials available at HTML Dog which is what I used when learning it years ago. It’s not the most up to date on HTML5 additions, but the HTML5 features you’ll actually want for modding GDT are mostly actually Javascript.
As for Javascript, I learned from two different books, both of which are kind of expensive. However, I have heard good reviews of the Mozilla Developer Network tutorials.
Once you think you know Javascript, the docs for the mod API explain how to use Javascript with Game Dev Tycoon specifically and list some of the stuff that you can do via the API. However, it’s very limited at the moment so you’ll probably end up spending a lot of time reading the actual game source code, available under /compressed/codeNw.js . It’s obfuscated and minified though, so it’s hard to read as is. You can run it through a beautifier to reverse the minification but you can’t do anything about the obfuscation.
You could try learn HTML & Javascript while trying to make a GDT mod, but all of the tutorials you’ll find for Javascript will assume you’re running in an actual browser and not a standalone app, so some things may be different.
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Your going to need to learn some javascript, but as KizzaGaming said. UME tool will make modding much better and easier. Right now it is in closed testing and it’s locked.
When it’s released though it’s a good way to start modding and look at how the code works
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