Show HN: EX LIBRIS – a library-crawling RPG made with a 2000s engine

Category: devtools

Tags: game-development, reverse-engineering, tooling

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 4)

This is a set of Python tools for the niche 'Sword of Moonlight: King's Field Making Tool' engine, enabling scriptable workflows for 3D model conversion, event scripting, and map editing. It's interesting because it reverse-engineers and modernizes a 2000s game development toolchain, replacing manual GUI work with reproducible pipelines for a dedicated modding community.

Target audience: game developers, modders

Repository: http://www.inpatientpress.net/inpatient-interactive/2026/4/16/ex-libris · Python

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