What is Veripeditus?

Veripeditus (from Latin „veritas“ → „truth“ and „pedis“ → „foot“) is a client/server augmented reality gaming engine and framework. It allows writing game „cartridges“ for the server, which it can then run. Players access the game while being outside with a mobile device.

Development

The server component, the framework and the games are developed in pure Python. There are a few design/development principles:

• Game cartridges must be easy to develop with basic Python skills

• The framework and engine must be dynamic enough to allow a large number of different game types to be developed

• The framework must not carry any code that is specific to only a single type of game

• Development is test-driven and test-first

• pylint is to be used and obeyed

• Code must at all times be compatible with Python versions in Debian stable and Debian unstable

Features of the web frontend

The web frontend was originally intended to provide a quick view into the game state on a Veripeditus server. It has, however, developed to become a full-featured client for playing.

Depending on how cool HTML5 turns out to be, it might become the official client and thus the first real-world HTML5 location based real-time game.

Testing system

A testing system is available at http://nightly.veripeditus.org/ . This machine runs the current development version of Veripeditus and is auto-deployed from Git.

It is unstable and might be broken. It will also lose data regularly.

Authors

The lead developers of Veripeditus are…

• … Eike Time Jesinghaus <eike@naturalnet.de>, a young Python and PyGame developer, born 2001 (14 years old at the time the project started) and an expert Python and PyGame developer and tutor since his 11ᵗʰ birthday, and …

• … Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de>, former teacher of Eike, now at times his trainee regarding Python magic.

Licence and copyright

veripeditus-server - Server component for the Veripeditus game framework
Copyright (C) 2016, 2017  The Veripeditus Team and contributors <team@veripeditus.org>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version, with the Game Cartridge Exception.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

See the COPYING.rst file for the full licence, and each source file for detailed information.

Artwork may be dual-licensed under CC-BY-4.0+, see relevant directories and files for details.