Getting assets out of games?

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Getting assets out of games?

#1 Post by Anarchy » Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:22 pm

I lost all my files today, but I'd built a distribution for my game and uploaded it to the internet. Is there any way of getting my art assets out of that?
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#2 Post by Aleema » Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:28 pm

Did you compress your data into a .rpa file before building distributions? If not, all your files are sitting inside the "game" folder.

Also, *whack* BACK UP YOUR GAMES, dummy! :wink:
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Re: Getting assets out of games?

#3 Post by yummy » Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:33 pm

Yeah! Don't make the same mistake as me :D
Find an USB or DVD and just put everything there. Because you don't know when your devices just decide to move to another plane of existence.
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#4 Post by PyTom » Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:51 pm

I'm able to extract assets out of a .rpa, so that's not killer. I can also get some scripts out of the .rpyc files.
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#5 Post by Anarchy » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:48 pm

I got my files! Thanks so much!

Ahaha, I know I should back my files up, but I don't have an USB drive or DVDs... I'll zip my files and upload them to mediafire or something from now on though, haha.
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Re: Getting assets out of games?

#6 Post by Aleema » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:58 pm

dropbox.com is excellent for that. (here's my referral code for extra space)
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Re: Getting assets out of games?

#7 Post by bink » Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:08 pm

If you have a few hours of free time to understand and learn how to use it, git is your best friend. It can even let you jump back to a previous version, should you mess things up and you can keep a copy of your progress online too. github offers free repositories to do that.
It's a must-have anyway when working in a group. :P
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