panthavma/castagne

Fighting Game engine and toolkit

Castagne

Castagne allows you to make fighting games more easily. It is a layer built upon Godot that manages the internal logic needed, so that you can focus on making the game itself. It focuses on:

• Efficiency: Iterate quickly and frequently. Works online directly. Learn from within the engine.
• Flexibility: Adapt to several genres, and weirder experiments. Can extend easily.
• Tools: Strong tools to help drive development. Make changes safely and in an informed way. See the website for more information! Join the Discord to stay up to date!

Download

Get it here! https://castagneengine.com/download

Projects Using Castagne

In bold projects having contributed code to Castagne.

• Kronian Titans
• Molten Winds
• Your project here?

Used Projects

• dsnopek's Rollback addon
• gdunzip

Licensing

Castagne is mostly licensed using MPL 2.0, with assets and external dependencies being licensed under different conditions. Please see the LICENSE.md files in the project, which apply to the whole folder and subfolders it is contained in.

• assets/ contains non-code assets subject to the licenses specified in assets/LICENSE.md
• docs/ contains general Castagne documentation subject to the license in docs/LICENSE.md
• external/ contains non-Castagne code subject to its own licenses. The contents of this folder may be downloaded on the Castagne website

As a simplified and non-binding explanation for most people: you can use Castagne for free even in your commercial projects under two main conditions:

• You must say that Castagne was used in the game
• If you modified Castagne, you must redistribute the modified source files

This is meant as a way to keep the project and community healthy with few restrictions.

Contributing

Castagne requires contributors to release their contributions under MIT license for the time being to be merged into the project.

castagne's Issues

Parser: Add Sequential branching

Add an option to have a branch progress step by step, which might be more traditional.
This might either need a specific code path, or could be translated to a F branch.

# Example syntax
S6:
    Startup()
S3
    Attack()
S30
    Recovery()
endif

# Equivalent to
F1-6:
    Startup()
endif
F7-9:
    Attack()
endif
F10-40:
    Recovery()
endif

Website / Documentation

Create a website for the project, with the documentation on it and to present the project.
Ideally should be generated from a folder in castagne, and include the in-engine documentation.

Node Problems (I am a novice in code, but great in design)

This happened after I changed the text of the words to something different.
Is there something I can do to fix this problem? And where could this fix be applied, I do not know code except limited knowledge of HTML.

I can only guess it's trying to pull from a node that doesn't exist in the directory.

Castagne Editor: Show documentation inside the editor

Have a way to show documentation for functions and engine, either through tooltips or bigger windows

Parser: Add more complete conditions

Allow condition operators like AND, OR, ==, >=, etc.

Castagne Editor: Function tooltips

Add an interface for functions to show or act in the editor.
For example, allow the hitbox/hurtbox function to show where the hitbox will be.
Probably through another function akin to the ParserFunc/ActionFunc structure.

Better functions/modules

Improve the module interface, clean up the function/variables, document them, and add a few.

CFCore: Add arithmetic functions

Add mathematical functions to the CFCore module, like Addition and Multiplication.

Replays

Add the ability to record a game and to play it back.
Done by storing the inputs.

CFBasic: Add more animation functions

Add more animations functions, like AnimFrame to show a specific frame.

Support several entities

Allow the engine to support having more than two entities seamlessly.
This should allow for projectiles, puppet characters, sfx, etc.

Castagne Editor: Move Preview

Allow the editor to preview moves while editing.

Castagne Editor: Playtest

Allow the editor to go into training mode to test out the character, and back out again.

Make an example character for documentation/prototyping

Should include animations and varied moves.

Castagne Editor: Character Editor

Allow modifying files from the character editor, and recompiling from the editor.
Should also show compilation errors.

Better input system

Improve the input parsing code :

• Allow user-defined buttons
• Add buffers
• Rebinding Menu

Rollback implementation

Create the rollback implementation for the engine.

Currently, the engine is already made with this in mind, but this will still be a long task.

Castagne Editor: Config Setup

Create a first version of the Castagne Editor, that can edit the config data itself.

Parser: Better error handling

Compiler should be able to report errors accurately and in a human-readable way.