Teeny Weeny Microgame Engine
A generic front-end for playing board-style games
Teeny represents a new idea in electronic boardgaming:
The Teeny LRFC (Lesser RFC),
conceived and drafted in February 2005, dictates the basic functionality
required by "compliant/compatible" game engines, with a strong emphasis
on portability across even the most basic of programming environments.
The conventions defined by the LRFC are intended to be taken by programmers
and implemented in their environment of choice. Compliant implementations
would, in principal, be compatible with each other.
The implementation distributed here is written in C++, and supports all
features required by the LRFC, plus lots of extensions (like a plugin
which allows users to program quasi-random movement paths for arbitrary
Actors, which is useful for solitaire play).
Requirements:
The software requirements are listed in detail in the
software manual,
but here is an overview:
- A Unix/Linux box running GNU tools and gcc 3.2+.
- libncurses++, which is almost certainly already installed on your
system.
- libs11n 1.0.x and libeshell 2005.02.22 or higher, both available
from http://s11n.net/download/.
- An appreciation for text-based interfaces.
Much more info is in the software manual.
Download: from the Sourceforge download site.
Despite its primitive appearance, teeny is deceptively powerful and
is easy to manipulate via scripts or extend via writing C++ plugins.
Rather than go into lots of detail here, we will refer you to the
software manual, which describes
what teeny does, how to instll and use it, etc.
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