A turn based top down RPG game. Written in C++ with Lua bindings. Very much a work in progress.

Requires

• g++
• OpenGL
• OpenAL
• LibOGG
• LibVorbis
• LibDevil

Requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Should build out of the box.

Additional requires FreeGlut for Linux.

sudo apt-get install g++ libopenal-dev libalut-dev libdevil-dev libogg-dev freeglut3-dev

Defaults to building with debug symbols.

make NODEP=yes -j 4

Builds in unit testing mode. The tests are found in the tests folder.

make NODEP=yes TESTING=yes -j 4

Requires Python 2.7.5 or Python 3.x to create the HTML documentation.

cd python
python main.py classList.txt

An example of the documentation can be found here.

• Tile based 2D graphics with a tile overlapping system for blending between tiles, which uses a precedence for determining what goes ontop of what. Specific overlap graphics can be used when two specific tiles meet (ie, sand and water).
• Sound system that supports streaming OGG and WAV files, for long music playback without having to store everything in memory.
• Lua Bindings for controlling just about every aspect of the game. From how a new game is created and loaded to how a door should behave when interacted with.
• All characters in game are treated equal. Each NPC has their own inventory, their own set of stats, and body parts. Each character can have their own set of body parts, this allows for races with many arms, or a playable horse, or a disabled character that is missing a limb.
• All maps are also Lua scripts, which allows for a map to be procedurally generated and saved with a save file to maintain the same map for a given save whilst being different for a new game.
• A dialogue system based on The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind with topics, keywords and actions binded to those keywords.
• An asset manager that allows for textures and sounds to be reloaded at run time from disk. Scripts can also be reloaded at run time in theory.
• HTML documentation taken from the C++ comments using a Python script.
• In game text uses a simplistic CSS and HTML system for doing styles.
• Saving and loading is done via Lua scripts, where everything is serialised to Lua structures.
• Scripts for items and characters can be changed between saves to allow for updates without breaking save files. Only changes that affect behaviour will take affect however, changes based on the initial stats for a character or item are not taken into account except for new items.

Here is an example of the game screen with current paths for the player and an NPC. Also showing the Inspector window which tells the player what is currently on a given tile.

An example of the dialogue system. Words spoken by the NPCs are shown on the left with keywords highlighted that can be clicked. Topics that have been unlocked by clicking on keywords are shown on the right.

An example of the in game editor. UI is all placeholder, but tiles can be painted onto a map of a given size, tile overlapping updates in real time.