The ChilliSource game engine is hosted as a Git repository on GitHub. The best way to download a copy of the engine is to clone the repository using Git – a popular distributed revision control system. This makes it very easy to keep up to date with the latest version of the engine.

Alternately you can download the engine as a zip archive.

Clone using SourceTree

SourceTree provides a graphical interface for working with Git which is easier for beginners to get used to. SourceTree is only available on Windows and OSX – Ubuntu users will need to clone using command line or another Git GUI client. The following describes how to clone ChilliSource using SourceTree.

Windows

• Download and install SourceTree
• Open SourceTree and press “New / Clone” button to open the Clone Repository window

• In “Source Path / URL,” enter: https://github.com/ChilliWorks/ChilliSource.git and choose a destination path and bookmark name for the repository

• Hit the Clone button and wait for the engine to download

OSX

• Download and install SourceTree
• Open SourceTree, press “+ New Repository” and select “Clone from URL” from the dropdown menu to open the Clone Repository Window

• In “Source URL” enter: https://github.com/ChilliWorks/ChilliSource.git and choose a destination path and name for the repository

• Hit the Clone button and wait for the engine to download.

The engine can now be found at the chosen Destination Path. For more information on using SourceTree please check out their website.

Clone using Command Line

For those comfortable working on command line it can be easier to clone ChilliSource using the git client directly. The following describes how this can be achieved.

• Install git on your machine if it is not already available. Windows and OSX installers can be found at http://git-scm.com/download/win and http://git-scm.com/download/mac respectively. On Ubuntu it can be installed using:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

• Navigate to the directory you wish to clone the project into

cd ~/Projects

• checkout the project using

git clone https://github.com/ChilliWorks/ChilliSource.git

For more information on using the git command line please see the git documentation.

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