Quipkit is an RPG kit for programmers. It runs on Lua, SDL and OpenGL, and works on Windows and Linux.

Quipkit aims to solve the same problem as Sphere : how to help people make RPGs. Sphere does it by:

• giving tools to make assets,
• having a pre-made engine and formats to quickly make a prototype, and
• letting those be customised to evolve the prototype into a finished RPG.

Sphere’s problem is that its pre-made engine and formats contain many quirks, making that last part impossible for newbies and frustrating for programmers.

Why not just make a quirk-free engine and formats then? Quirks exist when features don’t work the way they’re expected to, and everybody has different expectations for their games. There are several responses to this:

• Make a fully-featured engine. Sphere did this, but couldn’t avoid its fate, even though it was made by skilled programmers.
• Make a small engine and ignore feature requests. This isn’t useful to people who need those features, and takes focus away from making a solid foundation.
• Have people make their own engine on top of a solid foundation for completing RPGs.

Quipkit opts for the last approach. It aims to be a small, solid layer of game essentials like input, graphics and sound over the OS, good not only for making an RPG, but also the tools along the way.

Quipkit on GitHub: http://github.com/tung/quipkit

Issues: http://github.com/tung/quipkit/issues

Quipkit wiki: http://wiki.github.com/tung/quipkit/

Updates at Spherical: http://spheredev.org/smforums/index.php?topic=4129.0.html

Quipkit comes under the MIT license. See doc/COPYRIGHT for details.

Quipkit uses other libraries. See their respective folders for their individual license terms.