The template editor

New game, or Edit / Duplicate on a game, opens the editor.

Sections

• General: name, description, id
• Runtime: images, startup command, ready line, stop
• Ports by role
• Variables
• Config files
• Player count and Remote console (RCON)
• Console prompts
• Steam download and Workshop
• Install script

What each one means: Template format.

Live preview

While you edit, the preview checks the game and shows:

• whether the game is valid, and what’s wrong if not
• the startup command and the config values, as a new server would get them
• the YAML, to download, e.g. for a catalogue

Saving

Saving increments the version only when something changed. Running servers use the new version from their next start; changes to the install apply on reinstall.

Testing a game

Create a server from it on a node, ideally a test node:

1. Watch the install’s output in the console.
2. Start, and check that the ready line turns the server running.
3. Check the ports with a game client, and the player count on the server page.
4. Stop, and check that the stop command ends the server before its timeout.