fabula

fabula - 0.8.0

Florian Berger (fberger)

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Description

Fabula is an Open Source Python Game Engine suitable for adventure, role-playing and strategy games and digital interactive storytelling.

Fabula can be used as a library to develop your own games. As an alternative, you can use the Pygame-based graphical editor and the default game engine that come with fabula.

Features:

client-server architecture
event-based protocol
multiplayer and networking capabilites
multi-threaded server
abstract, visualisation-agnostic model of a game world
asset manager
plugin system
recording and playback of gameplay
well-documented code
runs on Linux and MS Windows (it should work on OS X, too, but this has not yet been tested)

Fabula uses the clickndrag library under the hood for sprites, items, tiles and the GUI.

All 0.8.x releases of Fabula are alpha versions. They may not install cleanly, lack features, crash or set your pet on fire. Use at your own risk!

Please note that fabula needs Python 3 to run.

"Fabula" used to be called "Shard" before being released to the public in 2011.

Changes

The main feature of this release is the re-introduction of TCP networking which had been disabled in all previous releases of Fabula. Networking is handled by TCPClientInterface and TCPServerInterface, using only modules from the Python standard library. Server networking is multithreaded, with a new thread for every incoming connection. Players will now be prompted for server IP and port. Two new scripts have been added, which start a networking enabled server and client.

The PygameUserInterface now highlights entities and buttons on mouseover, using a new clickndrag feature.

Other new features are truly immobile entities, improved thread handling and cleanups in logging. Lots of minor fixes and improvements as well as a documentation update.

Links

Home Page: http://fabula-engine.org/
Source: http://static.fabula-engine.org/fabula-0.8.0.zip
Windows: http://static.fabula-engine.org/fabula-0.8.0-win32.zip

Screenshot

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Releases

fabula - 0.8.3 - Jun 27, 2012
fabula - 0.8.2 - Feb 11, 2012
fabula - 0.8.1 - Jan 31, 2012
fabula - 0.8.0 - Jan 13, 2012
fabula - 0.7.0 - Jul 19, 2011
fabula - 0.6.0 - Apr 14, 2011
fabula - 0.5.0 - Apr 6, 2011
fabula - 0.4.0 - Mar 25, 2011
fabula - 0.3.0 - Mar 23, 2011
fabula - 0.2.0 - Mar 11, 2011
fabula - 0.1.0 - Jan 13, 2011

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August 9, 2011 8:06am - Xandar Kablandar - nickname: (eternalcheesecake)
Hey thank you for the new release! I installed it via the "python3 setup.py install" recipe in the README (actually needed to be prefaced "sudo"), and that went without a hitch. But it wasn't clear how to actually run the installed program from within my Linux distro. Looking at the installation output, it mentioned 3 scripts copied to /usr/local/bin/ : run_pygame_cli.py, run_pygame_editor.py, and run_pygame_game.py. So I tried executing them, but it immediate gave me a traceback--I don't have Pygame for Python 3 ("ImportError: No module named pygame"). Do you know of a convenient way to install Pygame 3 for Python 3 under K/Ubuntu?
July 19, 2011 4:04pm - Florian Berger - nickname: (fberger)
@eternalcheesecake: Your issues have been fixed in the 0.7.0 release. Fabula should install with vanilla distutils now, no need for cx_Freeze. Distribution format has been changed to a ZIP file with all symlinks dereferenced.
May 12, 2011 12:02pm - Florian Berger - nickname: (fberger)
@eternalcheesecake, all 0.x releases are to be considered Alpha, sorry for the inconveniences. I will fix the setup issue in the next release. Also those very private symlinks will go away in stable releases. :) Thanks for the hint.
April 14, 2011 11:34am - Xandar Kablandar - nickname: (eternalcheesecake)
Been wanting to try this out but am hitting setup issues running "python3 setup.py install" as it needs cx_Freeze, but I cannot install that by running "sudo pip install cx_Freeze", as I assume that Python 2.6 is catching it not 3.x. Also, looking through the scripts subdirectory, I see a number of files that are links to files on your personal machine, like "100x100-gray-png" linking to "/home/florian/doktorarbeit/projekte/fabula/draft/100x100-gray.png"... I think those are going to need to be dereferenced before being archived.