Make 2D action adventure games. For programmers and nonprogrammers alike.

Create a games like Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons.

The included demo game (demo/game.py) in action:

Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD), putting FreeBSD development first.

A labor of love, permissively (MIT) licensed, and crafted by Lillian Lemmer.

Please read about how you can help support Hypatia!

• Installation instructions.
• Hypatia Wiki (great resource for nonprogrammers, too!)
• Hypatia API Docs
• For people, checkout the socialization and contact methods for the Hypatia project.
• The official Hypatia website
• Official support chat: #hypatia on Freenode (webui!)
• You can contact the author via email: lillian.lynn.lemmer@gmail.com, @LilyLemmer on Twitter.

The included demo allows you to mess with all of its resources (see the resources directory!). With it you can:

• Create tilesheets to make tilemaps
  • Configure tiles from the tilesheet
  • Chain tiles together to create animations
  • Apply the "cycle" effect, which takes a non-animated tile, and creates an animated tile by rotating the colors used in the tile
  • Set tile flags, like the impass_all flag which makes a flag impassable to the player
• Create tilemaps with an arbitrary number of layers, using plaintext files
• Create scenes, with configurable NPCs, configurable scene data (player start position)
• Create character sprites using animated or non-animated GIFs

For more information, please read the official wiki guide for non-programmers.

Simply run game.exe after extracting hypatia-demo-windows-current.zip.

To get setup quickly and start tinkering around with the demo, simply issue the following commands:

1. pip install hypatia_engine
2. cd demo
3. python game.py