Keys of Naand - An isometric 2D RPG

General information

Keys of Naand (KoN) is an open-source, singleplayer, 2D isometric, medieval fantasy RPG using FIFE as game engine. It has a storyline written by the Myth Weavers community members, more precisly, the Farland group. KoN is licenced under GPL and will be absolutely free. As the game will be based on FIFE, it will work cross platform on Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

Background

Unfortunately nowadays RPG developers neglect the role-playing aspect in their games and concentrate much more on graphics. The KoN-team aims at focussing on a complex story with a good ammount of puzzle but still offering fast phased action. We want to give the player the chance to make his/her own decisions. Your choices in the game will have different consequences. Thus you as a player will have a stake in the story. Complex dialogs will allow you to interact with your environment and especially to play the role which you wish.

Technical

The game engine FIFE is a very promising hobbyist project with many talented and dediacted members. FIFE itself is written in C++, but allows the usage of the scripting language Python. So KoN will we coded in pure Python, i.e. that you don't have to be a programming expert to work on KoN. Being in contact with mvBarracuda, the FIFE-admin, gives us the possibility to have an influence on the development of our game engine and to get the best support. Besides we're in touch with the Zero-Project, a post-apocalyptical Fallout-like RPG, which uses FIFE, too. Please contact the FIFE-team for more information about the game engine.

Partnerships

Working on a complex project like this is not easy. That's why we cooperate with other projects/communities. Our official partners:

• The FIFE team is developping a next generation iso RPG engine and keeps us up to date about their progresses.
• The Farland staff undertook the task of doing the story part.
• The community of Myth Weavers with over 1000 active visitors is a great support!
• The Zero team is also developping a RPG based on FIFE.