Michael Heilmann's Arcadia

Michael Heilmann's Arcadia, henceforth simply Arcadia is a project with two goals: a) to provide an environment for creating games b) to provide games created using that environment c) to ensure the longelivety of the environemnt and of the games

Mission statement

Arcadia's mission statement is to provide an environment which allows for creationa and preservation of games.

• the environment shall be portable
• the environment shall be able to utilize target platform idiosyncracies
• the environment shall describe audials and visuals as well as logics of games by human-readable, human-editable textual documents
• the enrivonment shall utilize (deterministic) procedural generation to re-generate (from small descriptions) audials, visuals, and logics of games
• the environment shall be self-describing and have the ability to generate the code of a pure HTML5 website ready to be deployed to any webhost containing the documentation of Arcadia

License

Arcadia is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License

Project locations

The two official locations of the project are the website https://michaelheilmann.com/ (as generated by Arcadia itself) as well as the repositories https://github.com/michaelheilmann/michaelheilmann.com-arcadia and https://github.com/michaelheilmann/michaelheilmann.com-arcadia-dependencies.

Building from source

• Building under Windows 11 Visual Studio Community 2022
• Building under Linux

Build status

• Windows Main
• Windows Develop
• Linux Main
• Linux Develop

Roadmap

The roadmap (that is, what is was, is, and will be done) is available on michaelheilmann.com/Arcadia/roadmap.