TWE

WW2 Eastern Front Sim

TWE is short for 'To Whatever End' which was the title of a game I worked on from about 2007-2010. The game was originally written in C# with the Microsoft XNA graphics framework and was going to be a open ended world war 2 eastern front simulation. Sometime in 2010 I lost all the code when I accidentally erased the NAS where it was stored. This repo is a fresh start (from scratch) at TWE using Python3 and Pygame. I've decided to switch from 3d to 2d so that I can make more progress on the interesting stuff without getting bogged down with modeling and animation.

I am developing this game by just randomly working on whatever I feel like on a particular day. This means that game development does not progress in any normal fashion and I often add small features that I can insert with a couple hours of work. Read the change_log in the dev branch to keep up with the latest progress.

General Concepts

• eastern front around 1944-1945. roughly historical
• two modes : real time tactical environment and a strategic map
• strategic map size is not limited, each tile with be generated as needed
• not balanced on purpose. russians should inevitably push the germans west
• emphasis on iron man mode. strategic game doesn't start over when player dies they just take over a new bot

Things to do

• spawn different objects with the debug menu
• spawn as a german or russian and lead your squad into combat
• spawn as a civilian and try to survive the cross fire
• explore in a kubelwagen or a bicycle
• check cupboards for the elusive pickle jar item. eat pickles!
• check out the (very early) campaign mode

Main branch is stable. Dev branch is the latest and may be less stable. Check the change_log for details. Dev is merged to Main based on how buggy it is.

To Play

• install python3 and pygame
• download code
• change directory to the code directory
• python3 twe.py (windows would be: py twe.py)
• tested on Windows 10, Linux, Apple (M2)

Controls

See gameplay_instructions.txt for a full list

• '~' opens/closes debug menu
• 'w/s/a/d' movement
• left click on a object to open context menu
• tab close the active menu or open a player context menu
• 'esc' to exit menu
• 1-0 number keys are used in menus
• 'f' to fire weapon (if you have one)
• 'g' throw grenade (if you have one)
• 't' launch panzerfaust (if you have one)
• '[' zoom out
• ']' zoom in

License / Whatever

• I want to do this project completely by myself to improve my python skills and just as a fun hobby.
• However - I put it on github for a reason. Feel free to copy code from it if you find it useful. If you use a lot of code I'd appreciate a little shout out or note as to where you got it. Thanks!
• On this project it is rare that I copy code from the internet, almost all of it is from scratch (that is why the math is so bad) - but when I have copied code I will try to include references from where I got it