Alley Cat

mysticfall

A programmer friendly game framework for Godot engine.

Project Home : https://github.com/mysticfall/AlleyCat

Hi, it's my first post here :smiley:

I just created an open source project called 'Alley Cat', so I wanted to start a thread to post updates and get feedbacks for the project in future.

Currently, it's still in a proof-of-concept stage, so you probably shouldn't use it for your own game yet. But I'll keep working on it and try to share my progress here.

For now, the framework has some base API for making it feel more comfortable for those who are familiar with C# to write games in Godot. I intend to build either Skyrim or Second Life like platform on top of it, so people can easily create their own (preferrably open source) games with it.

If you have any questions or suggestions about the project, please let me know in comments.

Thanks!

mysticfall

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Alley Cat Development

ADisibio

Looks awesome at first glance. I'll have to dig into it.

MagicLord

Great project, there is lot of work. Is the character creator using morphing ? Godot is missing animation re targeting.

mysticfall

@ADisibio said: Looks awesome at first glance. I'll have to dig into it. Thanks! :smiley:

@MagicLord said: Great project, there is lot of work. Is the character creator using morphing ? Godot is missing animation re targeting. Yeah, and that is one of the reasons why I'm delaying finishing the work on the character morphing API. Currently, I'm working on an item system and will convert the current animation system using the new AnimationGraphPlayer.

I was also postponing doing more work on the locomotion part too, because the current code relied on my own hack to implement root motion which doesn't play nice with the old, clunky AnimationTreePlayer. But now it seems the new player supports root motion and blend space, so I can resume my work on that part.

MagicLord

Is your framework a full game ? Something people can swap some models or characters and keep good gameplay without writing code ?

mysticfall

@MagicLord said: Is your framework a full game ? Something people can swap some models or characters and keep good gameplay without writing code ?

No it's not. Eventually, it'll be something like Skyrim the quests, so people can add their own mods using the framework.

However, I expect it'll need at least couple of years to reach that stage, considering the current speed of development (I'm the sole programmer/designer and I mostly work on weekends) and also it'd need a bit of programming since the aim of the project is to provide a programming interface (API) to build such contents after all.

That being said, I'll probably try to add some demo/test contetns myself, if just to make sure that the framework is actually suitable for real game projects.

MagicLord

@mysticfall said:

@MagicLord said: Is your framework a full game ? Something people can swap some models or characters and keep good gameplay without writing code ?

No it's not. Eventually, it'll be something like Skyrim the quests, so people can add their own mods using the framework.

However, I expect it'll need at least couple of years to reach that stage, considering the current speed of development (I'm the sole programmer/designer and I mostly work on weekends) and also it'd need a bit of programming since the aim of the project is to provide a programming interface (API) to build such contents after all.

That being said, I'll probably try to add some demo/test contetns myself, if just to make sure that the framework is actually suitable for real game projects.

There is many game modding open projects like this one, but they never get momentum and never become a full game, but stay as some sandbox tools. Should you decrease the features of the game, get some realistic goals and make your own game instead ?

mysticfall

@MagicLord said: There is many game modding open projects like this one, but they never get momentum and never become a full game, but stay as some sandbox tools. Should you decrease the features of the game, get some realistic goals and make your own game instead ?

I think it'd be a reasonable thiing to do, if my immediate goal was to release a commercial game as soon as possible.

But for now, I'm less interested in making any full game that everybody can love than working on a project in a way that I personally find interesting.

My fascination about working on a game project is that I can create a world in a way I like, but as a programmer the world doesn't simply mean a 3D virtual space in which I can walk around but also such an abstract world of interfaces and classes.

And I'm also using this project as a testbed for experimenting different programming ideas and styles, so probably it wouldn't be the most efficient way to finish a game.

And even regarding the game mechanic, I'm afraid my current vision might not coincide with that of majority of people. For instance, I'm not focusing on any combat elements or challenges (at least for now), but trying to make a flexible framework for roleplaying oriented, or even NSFW contents.

So, I'm afraid that my project might not appeal to broad audiences, and even if it does, it may need at least couple of years to be able to really useful for them.

In the meanwhile, I hope that people can benefit from my project by taking some ideas or assets from it to use them for their own works.

aztecsensei

thanks for sharing but i couldnt load it, i tried to open it and nothing happend.is this a C# project,right? i downloaded the mono version and it didnt work? can you tell us how to open it? thanks btw , i like that your third camera controller. :* cheers.

mysticfall

@aztecsensei said: thanks for sharing but i couldnt load it, i tried to open it and nothing happend.is this a C# project,right? i downloaded the mono version and it didnt work? can you tell us how to open it? thanks btw , i like that your third camera controller. :* cheers.

Maybe it could be because It requires the latest master branch of the Godot to run. Otherwise, there should be some error messages when you run the project, so please check the console and let me know if you can find any relevant messages.

Glad to know that you like the 3rd camera view :)