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<span class="vstype">Hypersomnia</span> is an open source game project aiming to become a free software MMO with a persistent world featuring an elaborate storyline.<br/><br/>
It is a <span class="vstype">futuristic</span> universe with elements of <span class="vskeyword">fast-paced shooter</span>, <span class="vskeyword"> stealth </span> and <span class="vskeyword">role-playing game</span>.
<br/>Set in a hypothetical afterlife reality, it shall provide joy through altruistic behaviours and fulfillment of elaborate social roles,<br/>including, but not limited to, sowing panic as a traitor to benevolent ones. <br/><br/>
Decide upon your allegiance to one of the three warring factions whose apple of discord is
a disparity between prevailing notions of <span class="vsmacro">moral excellence</span>.<br/>
Metropolis; Atlantis; Resistance.
There is yet no official lore or wiki apart from a huge Game Design Document whose assumptions are being slowly, yet steadily, fulfilled.
The stories written are many, but they will be polished and revealed when all else is complete.
<br/>As it currently stands, the project is being brought to life with mere forces of a single man; <br/>
he holds the project in his highest esteem and is well aware it will necessarily take months of intense, wholehearted labour. <br/>
// Tiled cathedral with dynamic pixel-art lighting
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Here you can watch a very old singleplayer version with nasty enemies.
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The project takes advantage of the following technologies:<br/>
* <span class="vsenum">C++</span><br/>
* <a href="https://www.opengl.org/" class="vsenum">OpenGL</a><br/>
* <a href="https://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html" class="vsenum">OpenAL Soft</a><br/>
* <a href="https://www.box2d.org/" class="vsenum">Box2D</a> <span class="vscomment"> // physics simulation engine</span><br/>
* <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/" class="vsenum">GNU Libmicrohttpd</a> <span class="vscomment"> // for a simple http widget with server statistics</span><br/>
* <a href="https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2" class="vsenum">Lua with sol2</a><span class="vscomment"> // mostly configuration</span><br/>
* <a href="https://enet.bespin.org/" class="vsenum">ENet</a><span class="vscomment"> // networking engine </span><br/>
* <a href="https://github.com/ivanfratric/polypartition" class="vsenum">polypartition</a><span class="vscomment"> // polygon partitioning library </span><br/>
* <a href="https://www.freetype.org/" class="vsenum">FreeType</a><span class="vscomment"> // font glyph rendering </span><br/>
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The rest being the craftsmanship of the founder.<br/>
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