jgenso/hypatia

Hypatia game engine: make 2D action adventure games. For programmers and nonprogrammers alike.

Hypatia Game Engine 0.2.6 (alpha): make 2D action adventure games. For programmers and nonprogrammers alike.

With Hypatia you can create a games like Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons.

There is an included demo game (demo/game.py). Here it is in action:

Hypatia is a labor of love, permissively licensed, and crafted by Lillian Lemmer. Read more about Hypatia on the official Hypatia project wiki. If you’re curious about the creator, the wiki has an about the creator of Hypatia page.

Dive in without any programming

The included demo allows you to mess with all of its resources (see the resources directory!). With it you can:

• Create tilesheets to make tilemaps

  • Configure tiles from the tilesheet

    • Chain tiles together to create animations

    • Apply the "cycle" effect, which takes a non-animated tile, and creates an animated tile by rotating the colors used in the tile

    • Set tile flags, like the impass_all flag which makes a flag impassable to the player

• Create tilemaps with an arbitrary number of layers, using plaintext files

• Create scenes, with configurable NPCs, configurable scene data (player start position)

• Create character sprites using animated or non-animated GIFs

For more information, please read the official wiki guide for non-programmers.

Quick Demo

Windows

Simply run game.exe after extracting hypatia-demo-windows-current.zip.

Other

To get setup quickly and start tinkering around with the demo, simply issue the following commands:

• pip install hypatia_engine

• cd demo

• python game.py

Support this project

• Support/fund through Patreon

• Donate through PayPal

• Donate, or demand features in exchange for cash, through Bountysource

• Donate through Gratipay

• The creator’s Amazon Wishlist

For more information, please read about the ways you can support Hypatia.

Dependencies, Installation

Windows

If you’re using Windows, and just wanna try the demo, don’t worry about this section. You can run game.exe from hypatia-demo-windows-current.zip.

Other

Hypatia uses the following libraries:

• Pygame

• PygAnim

• Pillow

You should be able to install everything you need using one of the included install-*.sh shell scripts. It basically boils down to:

• Install Pygame (varies per platform)

• pip install --user -r requirements.txt .

For more info on installation, checkout the installation instructions page.

Resources

All of the documentation is on the GitHub Wiki.

For people, checkout the socialization and contact methods for the Hypatia project.

Additional resources:

• The official Hypatia website

• Official support chat: #hypatia on Freenode

• You can contact the author via email: lillian.lynn.lemmer@gmail.com

License

Hypatia is MIT licensed, which means you can use it for whatever purpose you’d like.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Lillian Lemmer

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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