What is Novashell?
Novashell is a high-level 2D game maker that tries to handle all the hard work behind the scenes allowing you to whip up sweet games using path finding, dialog, persistent dynamically sized maps with construction/deconstruction, save anywhere, and especially features that adventure and RPG type games would use. It's also built to allow easy sharing of games you make and modding of them. The underlying concept is everything is cut and pastable and can be added and removed even during play.
The worlds/games/mods it makes can be played under Windows, OS X, and Linux without changes.
Free to use and distribute stand-alone games.
Open source under a zlib/libpng license. (more)
Screenshots
Screenshots from the included example games:
Note: This project is in beta but the changes from here on out are expected to be minor. Data formats and such are not expected to change in a way that will break compatibility.
After downloading, check out the Getting Started Tutorials and the Novashell Scripting Reference.
If you have any questions, comments, or bug reports, please use the Novashell Forums.
Engine comments/todo list forum thread (Subscribe to get email updates)
Downloads of Latest Version
(the machines that are turned on automatically build and update here on a regular basis, so it's quite possible they could be broken at times or out of sync)View the current history.txt file to see what's changed.
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Download for Windows (built September 2, 2009, 2:03 pm - 18.58 MB) |
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Download for Mac (built September 2, 2009, 1:04 pm - 20.8 MB) (Universal binaries, requires OSX 10.4 or newer) |
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Download for Linux (built October 21, 2009, 1:02 pm - 21.46 MB) (requires Clanlib 1.0 to be installed) |
You a programmer? Then you might want to grab the C++ source from our subversion server.
*Tiles used in the top view RPG test were created by Danc (Daniel Cook)
*Physics by Erin Catto's Box2D
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