Features

• client-server architecture
• event-based protocol
• multiplayer and networking capabilites
• multi-threaded server
• abstract, visualisation-agnostic model of a game world
• asset manager
• plugin system
• recording and playback of gameplay
• well-documented code
• runs on Linux and MS Windows (it should work on OS X, too, but this has not yet been tested).

Technology

Unter the hood of Fabula there are:

• Python, a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language
• Pygame, a set of Python modules designed for writing games, based on SDL, a cross-platform multimedia library
• planes, a hierarchical surface framework for PyGame

To create binary packages, Fabula uses cx_Freeze, a cross platform set of scripts and modules for freezing Python scripts into executables.

Fabula has been coded using Editra, a multi-platform text editor.