In order to release early and release often and to make participation for the community easier, the Thunder&Lightning source code and data are now available via a darcs server.

The server is currently in experimental stage.

• To checkout the sources, install darcs and type:
  darcs get http://tnlgame.net/darcs/TnL-source
• To checkout the data files:
  darcs get http://tnlgame.net/darcs/TnL-data
• To update the repository later (must be inside repository directory):
  darcs pull
• To record any changes you made:
  darcs record
• To create a patch from the changes:
  darcs send -o patchfile.txt
  Then send the patch file to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

In order to run Thunder&Lightning, you need a special version of Io which is maintained in a git repository.

• To download TnL's Io repository:
  git clone http://tnlgame.net/git/Io/.git
• To switch to the tnl branch which contains the modified version of Io:
  git checkout tnl