Using many lessons learnt from my time working on Chronicle — it's predecessor — as well as being upset with the current state of Unity, Constellation is my new 2D game engine for writing highly interactive top-down RPGs.

The primary goal of the engine is to enable easy and rapid development of Edith, through the idea of it being able to construct primarily "Edith-esque" RPG games.

The users of Constellation are not expected to know a large amount about programming, so it focuses heavily on allowing the development of complex scenarios without learning any programming, which both increases accessibility and facilitates the rapid development.

Internally, the Constellation editor and engine use a custom protocol and archive solution, both of which are declared in an XML spec document. The editor is written in HTML5 accessible on any device, and the engine is written in Zig.

The engine makes use of OpenGL, FreeType and can make builds for both WASM (for integration with the web editors) and native, using the Windows API.