NOTE: This is not an up-to-date version of my game project, and while I currently intend to open-source my game after it has been released for a few years, this does not reflect the game at this time. I am keeping this here to show some examples of how to use Kivy or to use Python, that is about it. Perhaps someday I will make an official engine, but this is not that day. :)
Kivy RPG is my attempt at making an open, simple (tactical) RPG structure/engine using Kivy/Tiled. It's still got a lot of work to go, but so far it features:
- Loading Players, NPC's, Events(Floor and Object) and Enemies, all from Tiled TMX maps
- Basic Turn Based Tactical Battle System (some groundwork to support more than what currently is)
- Basic enemy aggro in real-time loop, turn based TRPG battle loop starts within proximity to player
- Working Event System, all from XML script files (dialogue and map_change written so far)
- Game progress flags (incomplete) for helping implement different progress in the game based on actions/choices
- Converting TMX data into SQLAlchemy supported DB (currently wired as sqlite)
- Because of above, data persistence - things are where you left them when you left the map.
- Custom collision events, using cymunk - easily add your own
- and more hopefully coming soon, if I can solve some performance related issues (goal is mobile support as well)
While there are games made in Kivy out in the wild, most of them are not big or complex games to learn from.
Initially, I started work on this based on Richard Jones' Kivy game tutorial code. I think the remnants of this are the tmx map code and the Rect collision section copied from Cocos2D.
Will update later, but off the top of my head, this requires:
Kivy, Cython, Cymunk, SQLAlchemy - and I THINK that is all.
I'm releasing my additions as MIT licensed. Please confirm the libraries I rely on follow your license needs.
Use whatever helps you, and please contribute!
While I'm opening this up sooner than I wanted (I wanted a good example of how to make a game, not a work in progress that might lead people to do things the wrong way), my intention was to contribute to the same python/kivy community that has helped me grow so much as a developer. Thanks especially to Richard Jones, inclement, tshirtman, kived, kovak, and dessant.