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Survive, hunt, talk to the other tribes and become the chief of your clan.</p> <a class="play" href="../play/">Play</a> <p class="hint">Free, nothing to install · desktop and mobile (hold your phone in landscape)</p></header><main> <section id="jeu"> <h2>The game</h2> <p>You are <strong>Torgan</strong>, a young hunter of the <strong>Pieds-Agiles</strong>. You roam a vast valley in first-person view: mountains, forests, springs, clouds and storms. Day follows night, and hunger, thirst and fatigue wear you down. You meet wolves, bears, rabbits and men from other tribes: you must then fight in side view, with an axe, a spear or bare hands… or else talk, trade gifts and make allies.</p> <p>Chip flint to make your weapons, gather berries and roots, tend your wounds, sleep by the fire. Here, cunning and diplomacy are often worth more than strength.</p> <div class="shots"> <figure><img src="../img/paysage.png" alt="The landscape in first-person view" loading="lazy" width="640" height="400"><figcaption>The valley in first-person view, by day and by night</figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="../img/combat.png" alt="A fight in side view" loading="lazy" width="640" height="400"><figcaption>Hunting and fighting in side view</figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="../img/quete.png" alt="Chief Hognor gives out a quest" loading="lazy" width="640" height="400"><figcaption>Night falls: chief Hognor gives his first quest</figcaption></figure> </div> </section> <section id="quete"> <h2>The quest</h2> <p>Hognor, the chief of your tribe, sets you ever harder trials:</p> <ol class="quest"> <li>Bring back food: the tribe is hungry.</li> <li>Get the <strong>Potion of Life</strong> from the Yeux-Malins, because the young ones ate poisonous berries.</li> <li>Take up the Bras-de-Roc's challenge: defeat their chief and steal the <strong>Ivory Axe</strong>.</li> <li>Take back the <strong>Sacred Staff</strong> stolen by the Hyènes-Folles.</li> <li>And finally… let the law of strength choose the new chief.</li> </ol> <div class="tribes"> <div class="tribe"><h3>Pieds-Agiles</h3><p>Your tribe. Chief: Hognor.</p></div> <div class="tribe"><h3>Yeux-Malins</h3><p>Cunning healers. Chief: Sl-Oom.</p></div> <div class="tribe"><h3>Bras-de-Roc</h3><p>Feared warriors. Chief: Grungh.</p></div> <div class="tribe"><h3>Hyènes-Folles</h3><p>Raiders of the South. Chief: Krok-G.</p></div> </div> </section> <section id="aide"> <h2>Controls</h2> <div class="controls"> <div class="panel"> <h3>Computer</h3> <dl> <dt>Mouse</dt><dd>Pick an action in the menus at the bottom (▲▼ arrows to scroll), click the picture to look around</dd> <dt><kbd>←</kbd> <kbd>→</kbd></dt><dd>Landscape: turn · side view: walk</dd> <dt><kbd>↑</kbd> <kbd>↓</kbd></dt><dd>Landscape: speed up / slow down · side view: stand up / crouch</dd> <dt><kbd>Space</kbd></dt><dd>Landscape: map · side view: strike</dd> <dt><kbd>Enter</kbd></dt><dd>Change weapon (or right click)</dd> <dt><kbd>Esc</kbd></dt><dd>Leave the view (or click)</dd> <dt>Numpad</dt><dd>Second player (<kbd>8</kbd><kbd>2</kbd><kbd>4</kbd><kbd>6</kbd>, <kbd>1</kbd> strike, <kbd>3</kbd> weapon)</dd> </dl> </div> <div class="panel"> <h3>Mobile</h3> <dl> <dt>Touch</dt><dd>Like a mouse click: the whole game is played with the menus (Look › Landscape to go exploring)</dd> <dt>Joystick</dt><dd>Left strip: turn, move forward (landscape), walk (side view)</dd> <dt>STRIKE</dt><dd>Side view: strike · landscape: map</dd> <dt>WEAPON</dt><dd>Side view: change weapon</dd> <dt>EXIT</dt><dd>Leave the current landscape or view (tapping the picture works too)</dd> <dt>MAP</dt><dd>The map in the landscape</dd> </dl> </div> </div> </section> <section id="histoire"> <h2>A long history</h2> <ul class="timeline"> <li><b>1986</b> — First version, written in assembly for the Thomson MO5 and TO7/8/9 and the Amstrad CPC, then rewritten in C for the PC.</li> <li><b>1987</b> — A more colorful version for the Atari ST.</li> <li><b>1996</b> — The C sources come out of the boxes: a version for MacOS and Windows.</li> <li><b>2017</b> — Sapiens becomes freeware.</li> <li><b>2018</b> — <a href="https://www.myriad-online.com/fr/products/sapiensopensource.htm">Myriad releases the sources</a> under the GNU GPL v3 license.</li> <li><b>Today</b> — A port to PHP, playable in your browser.</li> </ul> </section> <section id="php"> <h2>100% PHP</h2> <p>This version is a faithful, function-by-function port of the 2018 C sources to <strong>PHP</strong>, built on the <a href="https://github.com/davidnurdin/jumPhp">JumPHP</a> framework. The same code runs on desktop (PHP + SDL2) and in the browser (PHP compiled to WebAssembly). The sprites, sounds and texts are those of the original game.</p> <p>Source code: <a href="https://github.com/davidnurdin/sapiensPhp">github.com/davidnurdin/sapiensPhp</a> · original sources: <a href="https://www.myriad-online.com/fr/products/sapiensopensource.htm">Myriad's Sapiens open source page</a>.</p> </section></main><footer> <p><strong>SAPIENS</strong> © Didier & Olivier Guillion — Myriad, 1986-2017. Original music by Gilles Soulet.</p> <p>Sources released under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GNU GPL v3</a> license; this port is distributed under the same license.</p> <p>Unofficial fan site.</p></footer></body></html>