Hi. Getting Adventure Rock or the like to work, without support from the broadcasters, is not easy. It's not something you can easily set up.
For instance, let's see what happens when you start up Adventure Rock.
- You need to log in with a BBC iD.
- I think in order for this to work, or even to be able to create one, you need to be in the UK. You could use a proxy, but then you'd have to hope that BBC didn't change its Single Sign On addresses or Single Sign On API in the meanwhile.
This is gate #1.
Gate #2 is the game checking for updates. It could be that if it doesn't find the XMLs online that describe the patching system, that it doesn't even start up. I think that BBC has taken the patching server offline but I'm not sure.
Gate #3 is the "dynamic gamedata" folder that is located online somewhere. This is all sorts of data that describes different things in the game. E.g. it can be used to create messages, to lock or unlock studios and levels, to change textures in the game, etc. This is also probably offline and no longer available on BBC's servers.
What you should have to do is replicate this folder and file structure on a local webserver (or on an online webserver) and then force the game to think that the addresses it is looking for are actually somewhere else (e.g. by editing dns records).
Even if you were to find out these URLs, and you'd succeed in making your game think these URLs are located somewhere else, you'd still need the files and their contents.
Developing the game, we had config files that we could use to specify these addresses, and an offline version of course, that looked at a local folder for these dynamic files.
Getting this game to run without the server for logging in, without the patching server, and without the dynamic contents server, is a big challenge and even I wouldn't know how to start given the fact that I don't know the names or contents of the files.
However, I can have a look at work to see what I can dig up. The only problem is time (i.e. I have none) and rights (i.e. I don't know if I am allowed to simply give you files and solutions for this without breaking all sorts of laws because BBC and other broadcasters are the actual owners of this game, not just Larian Studios).
