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also Formally known as project "Lorule"

Getting Started Developer Guide

Welcome to Hades, A Dark Ages inspired project.

For None Developers, Please see the Getting Started End-User Guide

Getting the Source Code

Download and install the latest copy of the Hades Project source code from the github project below. https://github.com/wren11/Dark-Ages-Private-Server
Install and Extract all the downloaded contents to a folder on your computer.
Browse to the folder you extracted the contents, inside it should look like this (as shown below)

Navigate to the src folder
Inside, you will find a file called Hades.sln
Double Click on Hades.sln and it will open inside Visual Studio. If you don't have Visual Studio, Please refer to this table of prerequisites.
if you have installed all the correct prerequisites then everything should be loaded up correctly.
You should be seeing in Visual Studio's Solution Explorer

Client, Server, Tools, Config should all be visible.
Expand the Server Folder in the Solution Explorer to reveal the two server projects (as shown below)

Right click on Lorule.GameServer
Click Set as Startup Project (as shown below)

You should be able to start Debugging, Press F5 in Visual Studio and the Game Server should start.

Support

If you've gotten this far and still need help, please come into the discord and ask for some help from us.

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