Getting Started

This section sets up the tools for creating NewRecruit data and points you at your first build.

What you need

• The NewRecruit Data Editor, the desktop app where you edit data.
• A GitHub account, used to publish your data.
• Optionally, NewRecruit itself, to test your data the way a player would load it. On a Chromium-based browser it can load your working folder directly and hot-reload as you save; see Testing your data.

Git is worth installing too, since publishing and editing existing data both use a normal git workflow. See Publishing Your Data.

For download links and the setup steps, including the Windows and macOS security prompts, see Installing the Tools.

Next

Your First Game System builds a small but complete system from scratch, then loads it in the builder.