fabula - 0.7.0

Fabula is an Open Source Python Game Engine suitable for adventure, role-playing and strategy games and digital interactive storytelling.

Fabula can be used as a library to develop your own games. As an alternative, you can use the Pygame-based graphical editor and the default game engine that come with fabula.

Features:

• client-server architecture
• event-based protocol
• multiplayer and networking capabilites
• multi-threaded server
• abstract, visualisation-agnostic model of a game world
• asset manager
• plugin system
• recording and playback of gameplay
• well-documented code
• runs on Linux and MS Windows (it should work on OS X, too, but this has not yet been tested)

Fabula uses the clickndrag library under the hood for sprites, items, tiles and the GUI.

All 0.8.x releases of Fabula are alpha versions. They may not install cleanly, lack features, crash or set your pet on fire. Use at your own risk!

Please note that fabula needs Python 3 to run.

"Fabula" used to be called "Shard" before being released to the public in 2011.

This version comes with new demo game art, taken from the "Whispers of Avalon" open source game project. Fabula entities now support horizontal sprite sheets for walking animations, including one-column sprite sheets for just a front / left / right / back view without animation. The editor now opens a screen of the same size as the game screen and supports the SaysEvent. Fabula now features a server-side command-line interface - start run_pygame_cli.py to give it a try. setup.py has been fixed to finally work with vanilla Python distutils alongside cx_Freeze. Fabula source releases will be in ZIP format for the time being since tarballs created by distutils preserve symbolic links (see http://bugs.python.org/issue12585). Minor fixes, cleanups and documentation update.

Please note that fabula needs Python 3 to run.