Hypatia 0.2, a 2D adventure game engine

In plain words

Hypatia is an open-source 2D game engine designed for creating single-player action adventure games similar to The Legend of Zelda series. Built with MIT licensing and currently in alpha, it targets both programmers and non-programmers who want to develop games. The engine prioritizes FreeBSD support while maintaining compatibility across multiple platforms and includes documentation on how non-technical users can create games using its tools.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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In the maker’s words, at launch

Hello, Hacker News! My name is Lillian (see: http://about.lillian.link/), and I just released version 0.2 of my MIT-licensed game engine, Hypatia(http://lillian-lemmer.github.io/hypatia/). Hypatia is a game engine for single player 2D action adventure games. You can use it to make a…

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