Create a project

Start your own game from PinK's empty workbench. First create a minimal project that opens, saves, and runs successfully; add more gameplay and assets after that baseline is ready.

Create the project

1. Start PinK and select Create Project in the welcome area.
2. Enter a descriptive project name, such as my-click-game.
3. Wait for project creation, asset initialization, and script indexing to finish.
4. When the status bar returns to normal, confirm that assets appears in the asset view.

Confirm the project root and asset view before adding game content

Understand the project files

As you add content, the project normally contains these files and directories:

my-click-game/
├── assets/                  # Scenes, scripts, and source assets
├── settings/                # COCOS project settings
├── package.json             # Project identity and engine information
├── tsconfig.json            # TypeScript configuration
├── library/                 # Generated asset cache
├── temp/                    # Generated temporary files
├── local/                   # Local editor state
└── build/                   # Build output

assets, settings, and the root configuration files are project source. library, temp, local, and build can normally be regenerated and should not be committed as application source.

Establish a minimal baseline

1. Create and save an entry scene in assets.
2. Set it as the startup scene and run it once.
3. Confirm that the Problems panel reports no project configuration errors.
4. Initialize version control and commit a baseline without caches or build output.
5. Add gameplay, checking one observable result at a time.

Continue with Create a game with AI, or follow First AI change: Pink Demo to practice the complete workflow with a fixed example.