Skip to main content

ChamberCourt

https://github.com/rrthomas/chambercourt

by Reuben Thomas rrt@sc3d.org

ChamberCourt is a framework for simple 2-D grid-based games, based on Pygame-ce.

It is only intended for use by the author, mostly to resurrect a bunch of old games he wrote a long time ago. I welcome help to make it more generally useful: there is room for improvement in many areas. For example, it would be nice if the games could run on the web (I have experimented with pygbag, but I didn’t get very far yet), and some basic functionality would be nice such as a UI for rebinding keys. However, I want to keep it as simple as possible!

The package is named after the central courtyard of my school, Winchester College, because I wrote this package first while resurrecting a game, WinColl, named after the school.

Installation

Install with pip: pip install chambercourt.

Creating games with ChamberCourt

The following documentation is available:

  • API documentation
  • Cookbook
  • Demo game: a demonstration game is available, called chambercourt. You can run it directly from a Git checkout with PYTHONPATH=. python -m chambercourt.

Creating and editing levels

Levels are created and edited in Tiled. All in-game graphics and sounds are stored in the levels directory by convention. A demonstration level is in chambercourt/levels.

Some notes about level design:

  • A set of levels is numbered according to the lexical order of their file names.
  • Levels need exactly one start position, given by placing the hero.

Copyright and Disclaimer

ChamberCourt is distributed under the GNU Public License version 3, or, at your option, any later version. See the file COPYING.

THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH NO WARRANTY. USE IS AT THE USER'S RISK. Except for the files mentioned below, the package is copyright Reuben Thomas.

The font “Acorn Mode 1”, which is based on the design of Acorn computers’ system font, is by p1.mark and Reuben Thomas and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

chambercourt-0.9.54.tar.gz (73.5 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.

chambercourt-0.9.54-py3-none-any.whl (79.6 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file chambercourt-0.9.54.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: chambercourt-0.9.54.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 73.5 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/6.2.0 CPython/3.14.6

File hashes

Hashes for chambercourt-0.9.54.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 c284c6197aa2e9de33044fbd22c7d8f01c6c19b14ffb6ce469a26754c3c3c791
MD5 a510a509687fa94c34d4ebb0d22ea57c
BLAKE2b-256 c0942fbd97f78467bc8d74cc9984d66eb6ae715178915d4a4d013a1b482b3a84

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file chambercourt-0.9.54-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

  • Download URL: chambercourt-0.9.54-py3-none-any.whl
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 79.6 kB
  • Tags: Python 3
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/6.2.0 CPython/3.14.6

File hashes

Hashes for chambercourt-0.9.54-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 27acbf0520b1414fffe58bc320efa2f51dc12765591eaff20a0bcdcf6d7fba13
MD5 766d5e2576613f6eafbb9ab1f29133c5
BLAKE2b-256 097e2dbd43ba9fea23cee387628d1ead2ead5a39c8e1caa535045cdbf740f6e5

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Depot Continuous Integration Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page