Bundling Lectrote with Custom interpeter

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I got the Lectrote bundling process to work with my game, Never Gives Up Her Dead.

I want to use the files of my Bisquixe interpreter, which has the same structure as Quixe.

My game folder looks like this:
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(the figures folder being included here is because the website references them directly in this way).

My package.json contents look like this:

{
  "name": "NGUHD",
  "productName": "Never Gives Up Her Dead",
  "version": "3.0.0",
  "lectroteVersion": "1.4.6",
  "lectrotePackagedGame": "NGUHD/Never Gives Up Her Dead.gblorb",
  "lectroteMacAppID": "",
  "lectroteCopyright": "Written by Mathbrush",
  "description": "Rescue a crashing starship!",
  "lectroteExtraFiles": [
    "Never Gives Up Her Dead.gblorb"
  ],
  "main": "main.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "electron main.js"
   },
  "author": "Mathbrush <brushton84@gmail.com>",
  "license": "All Rights Reserved",
  "dependencies": {
    "electron": "^29.4.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "electron-packager": "^17.1.0",
    "@electron/universal": "^1.0"
  },
  "optionalDependencies": {
    "appdmg": "^0.6.6"
  }
}

It compiles, but the output looks like this:

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This looks like it’s working with just some bad links. Any ideas on what might be missing? The sample adventure game compiles just fine, I think.

Edit:
The sample game looks like this:

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I got my game to work without the custom effects:

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I found out it’s not Bisquixe’s fault. Including just the Play.html from the default Quixe release causes the same effect as above. I’m going to try listing play.html manually in package.json.

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The play.html in Lectrote is organized somewhat differently. Stylesheet has a different pathname, for example. You want to modify that one rather than trying to drop in a play.html from the web site template.

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That’s very helpful! Is the sample one in samplegame folder the best one to modify, or is there another one somewhere?

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That’s the only one I know of. If you discover another one, let me know.

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@zarf You’re right! I copied over all of my Release items except for play.html and index.html (which Bisquixe doesn’t modify) and it worked!

I now have the capacity to sell Bisquixe games on itch. Thanks!

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Edit: Honestly, this is very exciting. It’s now easy with this setup of mine to make changes to the resulting Lectrote at will. Very fun! And it looks so good.

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