There are many Pokémon fan games. A lot of them are based on RPG Maker, and some are home-rolled. Of those, several are even open-source. Games based on RPG Maker are subject to the authors of that framework, and of course, are limited to the scope of RPG Maker itself. Of the open-source games, few pool their code. This library is an answer to all the disparate fan projects. It aims to provide a capable API for Pokémon games.

This library provides well-documented data structures and utilities for Pokémon games written in Java.
A javascript version is in development!

The JPokemon API is not a game framework, and you will find no game loops or renderers. There is no runtime. There are no algorithms. Instead, there are several other goals defined.

Extend any class and use it however you wish. Or, instead of extension, use the property system. This library is intended to serve as a base for Pokémon games written in Java. For the sake of configuration, the library requires a very declarative style.

Provides hooks and headers for common algorithms, such as computation of experience required. Reuse components written by others to get to what matters most - the game experience. In fact, many such implementations of various algorithms and computations are already written in the jpokemon-lib project.

The API provides as much as possible, in an attempt to facilitate fully-fledged games. Games may choose to use as much of this API as they wish. Where possible, pointers are replaced with strings, to prevent enforcing use of any classes included.

This project uses HuBoard to manage github issues in a kanban flow. You can check out what's on the horizon in either place. Contributions are very appreciated!

This project uses maven. Clone (or fork!) this repository, and mvn install the API. This will create the following maven coordinates...

<groupId>org.jpokemon</groupId>
<artifactId>jpokemon-api</artifactId>

The JPokémon Library is available under the MIT License, See the LICENSE.txt file for details.