Open Eggbert

What is "Open Eggbert"

This is original image of Open Eggbert created by Robert Vokáč

Open Eggbert is open-source free recreation of the Speedy Blupi computer game.

Its name is not "Open Blupi", because "Blupi" is the registered trademark of Epsitec company.

Licence: GPL version 3 or later

There are several versions of "Speedy Blupi.

1. Speedy Blupi Demo
2. Speedy Blupi I
3. Speedy Blupi II
4. Speedy Eggbert Demo
5. Speedy Eggbert 1
6. Speedy Eggbert 2
7. Speedy Blupi for Windows Phone (released in 2013)

Note: Speedy Eggbert is the renamed version released by eGames company..

Goals of "Open Eggbert"

1. To provide the ultimate specification of "Speedy Blupi/Eggbert Games".
   • This specification should be as sufficient as possible to recreate these games.
   • This specification should completely include details for graphics, sounds, cheats, hacks, bugs, behaviours.
2. To record videos playing all levels and all possible situations.
3. To provide help how to run and modify Speedy Blupi/Eggbert (Exagear, Wine, Windows Phone emulation or rooting, etc.)
4. To list all important websites related to Speedy Blupi/Eggbert. See https://net.nanoboot.org/websites.jsp
5. To recreate Speedy Blupi/Eggbert games using Java programming language and the FXGL library.
   • Possible discussion for the technologies to be used is open.
   • Open Eggbert should be just one engine capable to be switched to behave like one of versions of the game. It will be possible to launch Open Eggbert in one of these 8 modes: Blupi Demo, Blupi I, Blupi II, Eggbert Demo, Eggbert 1, Eggbert 2, Phone, Open
   • It will be a very long way to develop "Open Eggbert", but I think, that the revival of these games is possible.
   • Source code is not available for any of Speedy Blupi/Eggbert games". This means, we cannot use these source codes to create a game like Speedy Blupi 3, but the recreation is the way.
6. To create the completely new graphic. Possible applications to be used for this task are Gimp and Blender, for example.
   1. 3D models will be used to create the new prerendered sprites
   2. Game resolution will be 640*480 or 1280*960 (or another technical solution - to be discussed)
7. To create Open Eggbert 3. It means new features in the game.

Development of "Open Eggbert"

Current status of development of Open Eggbert: It just started (3rd July 2024)

Source code repository (now almost empty): https://github.com/openeggbert/open-eggbert

GraalVM or GluonHQ may be used to port it to native Linux or Windows or Android or Iphone executable files.

New features with comparison to Speedy Blupi/Eggbert 1/2/I/II

1. Open Eggbert Editor - new separate application, an alternative level editor. Features will be inspired by X-Edit, X-Edit-Mapper and BlupiEdit and tiled-blupi
2. An alternative new Graphics - will be created and modeled probably with Blender and Gimp and Inkscape.
3. 40 frames per second (FPS) for sprites(Speedy Blupi/Eggbert 1/2/I/II have FPS 20). This means twice more sprites for animations.
4. 24 bit color depth
5. Resolution 1280x960, or possible any resolution.
6. New vehicles
7. New cheats
8. Improved multiplayer mode
9. Some bugs in Speedy Blupi/Eggbert 1/2/I/II won't exist (Unfortunately some new unwanted bugs will be introduced)
10. Support for mods - external directories or compressed archives with:
    1. worlds in directory data (mandatory)
    2. alternative graphics in directories IMAGES08 or IMAGES16 or IMAGE24 OR IMAGES16X2 OR IMAGES24X2 (optional)
    3. alternative WAV sounds in directory SOUND
    4. alternative MIDI music in directory SOUND
11. Use of artificial intelligence - for example to simulate other players for multiplayer or to simulate gameplay by the computer or to generate new worlds
12. World generator
13. World size could be also: width=200 height=200