Brian is a jump-and-run platform game. It is written in the Python programming language[0], using the Pygame library[1] (on top of SDL[2]) and probably the Pygsear[3] library. Although it will be an independant project, it will be heavily inspired by Commander Keen[4]. It will be written using a Linux workstation, but it should be crossplatform for all major platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac). It is called Brian after "Monty Python's Life of Brian", and the game may contain some references.
There are currently no satisfying jump-and-run platform games available under a free license for Linux. Tower Toppler[5] is nice but very small. Pyplatform[6] is very monolithic (contains no classes/functions, just one big chunk of code). I will try to design Brian as a very portable, modular game. Parts of it may be released as a platform gaming library.
[0] http://www.python.org/
[1] http://pygame.org/
[2] http://www.libsdl.org/
[3] http://www.nongnu.org/pygsear/
[4] http://www.3drealms.com/keen4/index.html
[5] http://toppler.sourceforge.net/
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