Hypatia 0.2.1 (project in alpha)
Hypatia is a game engine for single player 2D action adventure games. You can use it to make a game like Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. Hypatia is aimed at non-programmers and programmers alike.
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.
The included demo allows you to mess with all of its resources (see the resources directory!). With it you can:
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Create tilesheets to make tilemaps
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Configure tiles from the tilesheet
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Chain tiles together to create animations
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Apply the "cycle" effect, which takes a non-animated tile, and creates an animated tile by rotating the colors used in the tile
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Set tile flags, like the impass_all flag which makes a flag impassable to the player
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Create tilemaps with an arbitrary number of layers, using plaintext files
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Create scenes, with configurable NPCs, configurable scene data (player start position)
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Create character sprites using animated or non-animated GIFs
For more information, please read the official wiki guide for non-programmers.
If you’re using Windows, and just wanna try the demo, don’t worry about this section. You can run game.exe from demo/hypatia-demo-for-windows.zip.
Hypatia uses the following libraries:
You should be able to install everything you need using one of the included install-*.sh shell scripts. It basically boils down to:
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Install Pygame (varies per platform)
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pip install --user -r requirements.txt .
For more info on installation, checkout the installation instructions page.
All of the documentation is on the GitHub Wiki.
For people, checkout the socialization and contact methods for the Hypatia project.
Additional resources:
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Official support chat: #hypatia on Freenode
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You can contact the author via email: lillian.lynn.lemmer@gmail.com
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 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.