Brian is a cross-platform jump-and-run platform game. It is a completely indepentent game but it was heavily inspired by Commander Keen.
Brians current status is alpha. That means you may be able to get it running, and there are some graphics and sounds, but it is far from finished. Do not expect it to be much fun to play for now.
Brian will have monsters, multiplayer, music, sound effects, a story line, a level editor, multiple episodes, level maps, pogo jumping, full scrolling, doors, keys, and many more features. This may take a long time, however.
Brian is written in Python, using the Pygame library, which runs on top of SDL. It's written in Python because it's a beautiful language and the only language I know :P.
It's called Brian after Monty Python's Life of Brian.
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You're very welcome! Send me an email stating what you want to do. The Brian project uses Sourceforge: here is the project space (unfortunately, it's called pybrian there because brian was already used). Brian requires not only coding but also sound effects, background music, sprite graphics and (later) level creators and storyline authors.
- Python 2.3. It won't work with Python<2.3, because I use lots of features that are new in 2.3.
- Pygame 1.5.6
- SDL 1.2.5
- SDL_image 1.2.3
- SDL_ttf 2.0.6
- SDL_mixer 1.2.5
- SMPEG 0.4.4
- TiMidity++ 2.11.3
Most of these are included with Redhat 9.0. Only SDL_ttf, pygame and SMPEG aren't, but installing those shouldn't be too difficult. Sorry for the lots of dependencies! Windows users only need to install Python 2.3 and Pygame.
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Traceback (most recent call last): File "./brian.py", line 32, in ? from bz2 import BZ2File as Archiver ImportError: No module named bz2 -
You are missing the bz2 module. If you have compiled Python 2.3 yourself, you did not compile bz2. To compile bz2, you need the bz2 header files. Those are in the 'bzip2-devel' RPM package or can be installed from source. If you do not have compiled Python yourself, you probably have an outdated version of Python: make sure you have at least Python 2.3. You can check it with "python -V".
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Traceback (most recent call last): File "./brian.py", line 315, in ? main() File "./brian.py", line 280, in main game.mainloop() File "./brian.py", line 127, in mainloop DataServer.music.play() File "/home/gerrit/cvs/brian/DataServer.py", line 86, in play pygame.mixer.music.load(m) pygame.error: /etc/timidity.cfg: No such file or directory -
You are missing timidity.cfg. Make sure you have timidity installed: "rpm -q timidity++". Timidity is included with RedHat 9.0. If you do have Timidity installed, make sure /etc/timidity.cfg exists. If it doesn't, create it. Timidity.cfg is probably living in /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg. You can check it with "rpm -ql timidity++ | grep cfg". You can create it with "ln -s /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg /etc/" (as root).