Pacab

Pacab is the Point and Click Adventure Builder. It's a game engine/utility/library written in Python that leverages Pygame, Pygame Menu, Pyinstaller, and others. Pacab takes as input a bunch of image files and text files describing those images, and turns it into a playable game.

How to use

Pacab has documentation for how to build a game available here. It also comes bundled with an example game (Alt+Escape) which is meant as a demo of every feature in this game engine.

How to run the example game

Using uv: uv add -r requirements.txt to install dependencies.

Run uv run python -m pacab.cli.cli --help to get help on the CLI. Example commands for running the example game:

uv run python -m pacab.cli.cli run --debug ./example/alt-escape.toml
uv run python -m pacab.cli.cli build ./example/alt-escape.toml

How to start your own Pacab game

mkdir my-game
cd my-game
uv run pip install -i https://pypi.org/simple pacab
uv run python -m pacab.cli.cli init

Credits

• pillow
• pygame-ce
• pygame-menu-ce
• pyinstaller
• tomlib
• typer