{"id":109014,"date":"2020-02-10T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefromscratch.com\/post.aspx?id=20f2fff1-f367-4015-99c6-6d753a30ac02"},"modified":"2020-02-10T17:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:51:34","slug":"clockwork-gameshell-review-and-godot-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/10\/clockwork-gameshell-review-and-godot-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Clockwork GameShell Review And Godot Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clockworkpi.com\/gameshell\">Clockwork Pi GameShell<\/a> is a build it yourself hand-held console aimed at indie game developers and retro gamers.&nbsp; Late last year I cove red <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/post\/2019\/11\/27\/Clockwork-GameShell-Unboxing-and-Assembly.aspx\">the unboxing and assembly<\/a> while today we are going more hands-on with the device.&nbsp; In the second half of the video we show step by step how to develop and deploy Godot games on the GameShell device.&nbsp; This tutorial should also work for most Raspberry Pi based boards that support Godot development.<\/p>\n<p>If you are following the instructions to build Godot Engine games on your GameShell you will need a build template.&nbsp; The two options mentioned in the video are the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/apyoungblood\/godot_3.1_cpi\">Clockwork export template<\/a> or the more generic <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/efornara\/frt\">frt export templates<\/a> for Pi devices.&nbsp; I have tested with both export templates successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The only documentation on building Godot games for the GameShell is <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.clockworkpi.com\/t\/godot-3-any-godot-developers-here\/2017\">this forum thread<\/a>.&nbsp; The Clockwork GameShell is <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/31JNsCd\">available on Amazon<\/a> currently for $139 USD.&nbsp; Check out GameShell in action in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8PqAZHPnVrY\">video<\/a> below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8PqAZHPnVrY&#038;w=692&#038;h=389]<\/p>\n<p class=\"under\"> <span class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/category\/GameDev-News.aspx\">GameDev News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/category\/Programming.aspx\">Programming<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/?tag=\/Review\" rel=\"tag\">Review<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> &lt;!&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clockwork Pi GameShell is a build it yourself hand-held console aimed at indie game developers and retro gamers.&nbsp; Late last year I cove red the unboxing and assembly while today we are going more hands-on with the device.&nbsp; In the second half of the video we show step by step how to develop and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,64],"tags":[72,73],"class_list":["post-109014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-development","category-programming","tag-gamedev-news","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}