SAPIENS — PHP port

Il y a cent mille ans… / A hundred thousand years ago…

SAPIENS is the prehistoric adventure game by Didier & Olivier Guillion (1986: Thomson, Amstrad CPC, PC; 1987: Atari ST; 1996: MacOS / Windows; freeware in 2017). In 2018 Myriad published its C sources under the GNU GPL v3. This repository is a faithful port of those sources to PHP, on the JumPHP framework: the same code runs on the desktop (PHP + SDL2) and in the browser (PHP compiled to WebAssembly), on computers and phones.

Play online: see the game site (link in the GitHub description).

Le jeu

You are Torgan, a young hunter of the Pieds-Agiles tribe. Explore the valley in first-person view, survive hunger, thirst and fatigue, hunt, knap flint to make weapons, talk and trade with the other tribes (Yeux-Malins, Bras-de-Roc, Hyènes-Folles), fight in side view, and complete the quests of your chief Hognor… until the law of strength names the new chief.

Run it

git clone https://github.com/davidnurdin/jumPhp
git clone https://github.com/davidnurdin/sapiensPhp jumPhp/games/sapiens
cd jumPhp
bin/jumphp install sapiens
bin/jumphp run sapiens            # desktop window (Docker, X11 / Wayland)
bin/jumphp engine:build           # once: the WebAssembly engine
bin/jumphp build sapiens          # browser build in games/sapiens/dist/web
bin/jumphp serve sapiens          # http://localhost:8080

Controls

	Computer	Phone
Menus (bottom of the screen)	mouse	tap
Landscape: turn / speed	arrows	joystick
Landscape: map	Space	CARTE
Side view: walk / crouch	arrows	joystick
Side view: strike / change weapon	Space / Return (or right click)	FRAPPER / ARME
Leave the view	Escape or click	SORTIR
Second player	numeric keypad (8 2 4 6, 1 strike, 3 weapon)

How the port works

See AGENTS.md: one PHP trait per C file with the C function names, an 8-bit 640x400 offscreen like the original Mac version, the original sprites (.BRT), sounds and texts read as they are. The original files of the 2018 archive that were converted are in assets/ (see tools/).

Credits & license

• SAPIENS © Didier & Olivier Guillion — Myriad, 1986-2017. Music by Gilles Soulet (1986), rendered with the instruments of the original .mux files.
• Sources and data: GNU GPL v3 (Myriad, 3 April 2018): https://www.myriad-online.com/fr/products/sapiensopensource.htm. This port: GNU GPL v3, see LICENSE.