ALPACA

ALPACA (short for "A Library for Point And Click Adventures") is a game engine for adventure games and interactive comics. It's written in C++ and can easily be scripted in Lua.

📚 Documentation 
🎮 Example Game 
🐙ALPACA on GitHub 
 🗣️ALPACA on Discord

• Easy to use 🐣
• Gif Recording 🎉
• Node based dialog editor 🗯️
• Integrated dialog engine 💬
• PDF export for voice actors 🎤
• 2D bone animations via Spine 🦴💀
• Events via animation 🦾
• True multi-platform via JNGL 💻📱📺🖥️
• Hot reload 🔥
• Mouse, controller and touch support 🎮
• A* navigation 🧭
• Easy scripting via Lua 📇
• Automatic save game handling 💾
• Automatic tests playing the game 🤖
• Build via GitLab CI 👷‍♂️

Setup your PC for game development (Windows)

1. Download ALPACA.
2. Install Spine into the default folder.
3. Start prepare_assets.exe so your changes in the data-src folder will be synced into the data folder.
4. With pac.exe you can start the game.
5. In the Schnack folder you can find the dialog editor.
6. For Lua Scripting it's recommended to use VS Code with a Lua extension like Lua.
7. Start building your game.
8. If you need help setting up your first project or want to talk about your game. Book a time slot with the developers of ALPACA at calendly 🇩🇪🇬🇧, mail me at kolja@portaldogs.com 🇩🇪🇬🇧 or join ALPACA on Discord
9. More docs at 📚 Documentation