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| − | '''T-Engine4''' (TE4 for short) is a [[wikipedia:roguelike|roguelike]] game engine operating in [[wikipedia: | + | '''T-Engine4''' (TE4 for short) is a [[wikipedia:roguelike|roguelike]] game engine operating in [[wikipedia:Lua_(programming_language)|Lua]] and available for all major platforms (known to work on Windows, OSX, Linux and various BSD). |
| − | This page was copied from: | + | This page was copied from: https://te4.org/te4 on November 27, 2018. |
===Features=== | ===Features=== | ||
T-Engine4 provides many building blocks for your own roguelike game: | T-Engine4 provides many building blocks for your own roguelike game: | ||
| − | *Cross-platform support. A T-Engine4 game is completely made in Lua, as such your game will run automatically on all platforms supported by the engine. | + | *Cross-platform support. A T-Engine4 game is completely made in [https://www.lua.org/ Lua], as such your game will run automatically on all platforms supported by the engine. |
*Fast rendering through the use of OpenGL (but you do not have to worry about it, it is well integrated) | *Fast rendering through the use of OpenGL (but you do not have to worry about it, it is well integrated) | ||
*Support for both "old school" ASCII display or graphical tiles | *Support for both "old school" ASCII display or graphical tiles | ||
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*Many other things, just check it out! | *Many other things, just check it out! | ||
| − | === | + | ===Links=== |
| − | + | *[https://te4.org/te4-docs Documentation] | |
| − | + | *[https://te4.org/games Games made with T-Engine4] | |
| − | [ | + | *[https://te4.org/contest/vote/2013/results 2013 modules creation contest] |
| − | + | *[https://te4.org/wiki/T4_Modules_Howto_Guide Modules creation guide (wiki)] | |
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Latest revision as of 16:59, 27 November 2018
T-Engine4 (TE4 for short) is a roguelike game engine operating in Lua and available for all major platforms (known to work on Windows, OSX, Linux and various BSD).
This page was copied from: https://te4.org/te4 on November 27, 2018.
Features
T-Engine4 provides many building blocks for your own roguelike game:
- Cross-platform support. A T-Engine4 game is completely made in Lua, as such your game will run automatically on all platforms supported by the engine.
- Fast rendering through the use of OpenGL (but you do not have to worry about it, it is well integrated)
- Support for both "old school" ASCII display or graphical tiles
- Generic save/load code, your objects are automatically saveable without anything to do at all in most cases
- Object Oriented design with lots of flexibility, thanks to Lua
- Map handling
- Generic "Entities" concept that can become terrain features, objects, player(s), NPCs, ...
- Keyboard and Mouse easy support
- Various basic entities class interfaces to make your actors have life, stats, talents, ... with the possibility to define your own
- Generic "Zone" design, that can contain and define levels. A zone can be made into a dungeon, a forest, a wilderness map, a town, ...
- Handle either (or both!) persistent and non-persistent levels
- Malleable data structure design
- Extendable "dialog windows" system
- Many utility classes (chats, stores, default interfaces, character generator, ...)
- Keybind system that allows to user to assign keys to abstract actions and then lets a game bind to those actions
- Integrated download center: If you reference your game on te4.org then existing T-Engine4 users will be able to see the game in their list inside T-Engine
- Particles engine for some neat graphical effects
- Sound and music support
- Many other things, just check it out!
