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Greetings all,

I am new to game design and was hoping that someone would be willing to help me get setup with some of the basic tools. I just downloaded impact.js and I'm wondering what software packages people are using to create their projects? I am running the latest version of OS X. Is XCode is sufficient to do this kind of work? If not what are some alternative suggestions? Thank you for your help.

You don't need much... whatever basic editor with syntax coloring will do the trick. Personally I use Sublime Text 2. Xcode is a bit overkill but would work fine as well.

I am personally using WebStorm, and I love it. A version for Mac OS X also exists, but it is not free software.

I just picked up a copy of webstorm when it was on sale for like $12. I haven't really used it all. The real-time updating feature looks nice, not sure it would work well with Impact though. ;)

I like Sublime because its very minimal and has all sorts of nice shortcuts.

Thank you for the suggestions! I am trying out sublime text 2 and it looks like a slick interface.

Next Question - I am attempting to use Weltmeister in Safari and I cannot get it to respond... Is this a bad browser choice or have I skipped a step in the setup?

+1 for Sublime Text 2. Before this I was using BBEdit, which was also nice.

Re Weltmeister - do you get any errors in the consolewhen trying to open it?

Edit: I am now tempted to try out Webstorm

Hey Sledge! Welcome to the Impact club!

How are you accessing Weltmeister? Are you running a web server locally? If not, you should check out MAMP. MAMP includes a web server and PHP, both needed to run Weltmeister. If you run into problems, keep asking questions! (And if anyone knows of a better local server setup I'm all ears)

If you already have that up and running... what error is Safari reporting? Anything showing up in the web console?

Thanks drhayes for the reply! Yes, I am still unable to get it going properly. I wasn't running a local server, I should be honest and say that I am not fluent in html or javascript (though I am trying to learn). The mechanism by which Weltmeister functions is a bit opaque to me at this point.

I set up MAMP and I am running a server now but I don't really know what to do with it at this point. I am using all the default ports. I try to access Weltmeister through safari and the interface seems to load but the buttons do nothing when clicked. I am guessing that there is somethings simple I need to do to get the local server to talk to Weltmeister? Thanks again everyone for the help.

Console reads:

Unresolved (circular?) dependencies. Most likely there's a name/path mismatch for one of the listed modules:
weltmeister.weltmeister (requires: weltmeister.edit-entities)
weltmeister.edit-entities (requires: weltmeister.entities)

Also:

Failed to load entity list via glob.php: SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unrecognized token '<'
<?php
require_once( 'config.php' );

$globs = is_array($_GET['glob']) ? $_GET['glob'] : array($_GET['glob']);
$files = array();
foreach( $globs as $glob ) {
$pattern = WM_Config::$fileRoot . str_replace( '..', '', $glob );
$files = array_merge( $files, (array)glob( $pattern ) );
}

$fileRootLength = strlen( WM_Config::$fileRoot );
foreach( $files as $i => $f ) {
$files[$i] = substr( $f, $fileRootLength );
}

echo json_encode( $files );

?>