🚧 Point 'n click 🏗️

Game engine for point 'n click adventure games

Status: 🚧🏗️ In development 👷‍♂️👷‍♀️

Goal

This will be a package and template to create webbased 'point-n-click' adventure games where the library will be the game engine (like create react app) so that you can fully focus on the development of the game.

Planned features

• Features

  • Game engine for handling text, dialog, game state
  • Support for internationalization (I18n)
  • Support for themes
  • Game playable in browser and terminal
  • Support for custom UI's
  • Save and load game state
  • Build-in support for media:
    • Geppetto animations
    • Audio (Music & Sound effects)
  • Build-in support for controls
    • Gamepad
    • Mouse
    • Touch-screen
    • Keyboard
  • Auto update local client on publishing, leveraging PWA technologies
  • Downloading and caching game assets locally, allowing offline play

• Stability

  • Single state / save game model but different play experiences
  • Option to migrate save games of different versions to newer ones.

• Development Experience

  • Plan puzzles and work using puzzle dependency diagrams
  • Plan traversal and character locations using maps
  • Code completion for fast coding of content and logic
  • Play the game while building, leveraging live reload to update content while maintaining the game state (in browser and terminal)
  • State between terminal and browser is shared, allowing quick jumping back and forth
  • Developer tools to quickly setup scenes, conversations, character configurations

• Deployment

  • Build tooling for publishing as web app or desktop (pwa) app