When exporting your game with TIC-80, a binary specific to your scripting language is downloaded, and your game is injected into it. If you'd like to to fork and customize TIC-80 itself, you need to build those binaries yourself, and host them on your own http server.
This process will explain the steps specific to build TIC-80, but you will have to install some dependencies yourself. It is a step-by-step process that can largely be automated — and actually is through this project's build.yml
.
- Clone TIC-80 and make your changes
- Change the
TIC_WEBSITE
&TIC_HOST
statics- The new host MUST be accessible through
http
, and MUST NOT redirect tohttps
. It can be a subdomain.
- The new host MUST be accessible through