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game-dev-desktop

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AI Game Dev Desktop - Electron app for game developers (download-on-install wrapper)

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game-dev-desktop

AI Game Dev — desktop app installer wrapper, distributed via npm.

npm install -g game-dev-desktop
game-dev-desktop

What this package does

game-dev-desktop is a thin wrapper (~15 KB) that does not ship the desktop app inside the npm tarball. On npm install -g game-dev-desktop its postinstall script downloads the platform-specific installer for your OS/arch from the matching GitHub Release on IvanMurzak/AI-Game-Dev-App, verifies it against checksums.txt, and caches it inside the package's .cache/ directory.

Running game-dev-desktop then launches that installer interactively:

| Platform | Behavior | | --- | --- | | macOS (arm64, x64) | Opens the .dmg in Finder; drag the app to /Applications. | | Windows (x64) | Runs the NSIS installer (Setup ….exe); follow the wizard. | | Linux (x64) | Runs the .AppImage directly — no system install needed. |

linux-arm64 and win32-arm64 are not currently supported — npm install -g on those platforms succeeds but game-dev-desktop will not have an installer to run.

Versioning

The npm package version mirrors the desktop app version. npm install -g [email protected] downloads the installer from the GitHub Release tagged vX.Y.Z.

Provenance

This package is published with npm provenance via GitHub Actions Trusted Publishing (OIDC). No NPM_TOKEN is involved — the publish step runs on a GitHub-hosted runner with id-token: write and exchanges the OIDC JWT for a short-lived publish credential.

Environment variables

| Variable | Effect | | --- | --- | | AI_GAME_DEV_SKIP_DOWNLOAD=1 | Skips the postinstall download. The first invocation of game-dev-desktop will retry the download. Useful for CI environments that just want the wrapper. |

Why download-on-install instead of bundling?

Each platform installer is ~150–200 MB. Bundling every supported platform inside a single npm tarball would push past npm's per-tarball soft-discouragement threshold and waste storage; bundling per-platform sub-packages would mirror the game-dev-cli shape but each platform package would still be 150+ MB. The download-on-install path keeps the npm tarball ~15 KB and pulls only the user's installer once.

The existing GitHub Release distribution path is unaffected — users who prefer downloading the .dmg / .exe / .AppImage directly from the GitHub Releases page can continue to do so.

Uninstall

npm uninstall -g game-dev-desktop

This removes the wrapper and its cached installer. It does not remove an already-installed app on macOS or Windows — use the OS's standard uninstall path (drag from /Applications, or "Add or Remove Programs"). On Linux the AppImage was never system-installed; deleting the npm wrapper removes everything.

Reporting bugs

github.com/IvanMurzak/AI-Game-Dev-App/issues