gfx

Fantasy console (similar to PICO8)

• made with C and SDL2
• has python27 binding
• permissive license (MIT)
• very minimal, great starting point for making your own fantasy console

building

I use gcc and mingw32.
To build the python module:

make gfx

(you will need to edit PYTHON_PATH and PYTHON in Makefile to point to your python installation)

To install in python, use distutils:

python setup.py install

All this does is copy gfx.pyd and SDL .dlls to site-packages.

Then it should work:
helloworld.py

from gfx import *

def __update__():
    color(YELLOW)
    text(0, 0, "Hello World")
    
def __name__ == "__main__":
    init()
    load_spritesheet("assets/spritesheet.bmp")
    mainloop()

The batch file build.bat will automatically build, install and test gfx for you (if you have PYTHON27 in your environment variables)

API

Drawing methods:

• point
• line
• rect
• rectfill
• circ
• circfill
• text
• sprite
• map

see test.py for python example usage
see mapedit.c for C example usage
(run make mapedit to build the bin\mapedit.exe tool)

Asset Files

Unlike PICO8, gfx uses external asset files of conventional file formats

Asset Type	File Format
spritesheet	.bmp
map	[binary format]
audio	.wav

Currently you can only have one spritesheet, but you can load up to 24 .wav files.
Unusually, the spritesheet has to be 1-bit (black/white)
When drawing, the sprite color is determined by the current color (set with color())
I created my spritesheet with Graphics Gale

Input

there are 8 buttons:

Name	Keyboard
A	Z
B	X
UP	UP ARROW
DOWN	DOWN ARROW
LEFT	LEFT ARROW
RIGHT	RIGHT ARROW
START	ENTER
SELECT	SPACE