Ika
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ika is a basic game engine platform for Windows. ika was all but discontinued at one point, but a rise in interest has lead the developers to begin working towards a new version. The latest released version of the game engine is version 0.61.
ika originally came from the RPG toolkit verge, but uses the Python programming language instead of VergeC, which is the custom C-based script language used by verge. Similar to Pygame, ika can use all of the functionality of Python, and includes additional built-in libraries for functionality commonly used in games, like playing music and sound effects, utilizing keyboard, joypad, and mouse input, as well as managing graphics. Unlike with Pygame, it usually isn't necessary to install the Python and Pygame libraries to play an ika game, since the necessary libraries come with the ika game engine. (The exception is if external Python modules are used in a game.)
The game engine consists of a map editor and the main executable. There are also a number of other utilities used for creating the sprites and fonts that are used by the game engine, since these files, as well as the map and tile files, are stored in a custom file format based on XML. However, code is written in plain text files, and is compiled at runtime rather than precompiled.
A common complaint about ika is its lack of consistent userfriendly tools for creating the various custom files that the game engine uses. However, these utilities are being worked on. A common editor for code, maps, sprites, and other resource files may be released with future versions of ika.
External links
- [ika homepage]
- [Sumblocks], a puzzle game made with ika.
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