The Wandering Inn RPG (unofficial fan game)

A top-down pixel RPG set in the world of The Wandering Inn by pirateaba. You arrive at Erin's inn with no class and no skills — what you become is up to how you play: fight, work, talk, or study your way into classes and let them grow, merge, and evolve while you sleep.

▶ Play the demo — runs in your browser; saves live in your browser on this device. The demo tracks the latest release.

Spoilers: safe for readers caught up through Volume 7 of the web serial (ebooks: through the Volume 7 books). The game isn't set at any single moment in the story — it draws characters, places, and Skills from across Volumes 1–7, and never references anything past that line.

Running from source

Requires Godot 4.7 (the project is pinned to it; other versions are not supported).

git clone https://github.com/GabrielGLevine/wandering-inn-rpg.git
cd wandering-inn-rpg
godot --path wandering_inn_game

To check a fresh machine has everything the gates need — engine version, Python deps, git hooks, and the optional licensed-asset overlay — run:

bash scripts/setup_dev_env.sh --check   # report only; drop --check to set it up

The project is QA-first: every player-visible feature ships with a scripted playtest that asserts it. Run the same gate CI runs:

wandering_inn_game/qa/ci_sweep.sh

Some art and music in official builds comes from licensed packs that can't be redistributed here — the repository builds with fallback placeholders for those, and is fully playable and testable. Want to help replace them with original art? See CONTRIBUTING-ASSETS.md.

Contributing

Everything is open to contribution — code, quests, dialogue, art, music, ideas:

• Code / content PRs: start with CONTRIBUTING.md. Scripted playtests gate every change, and your PR runs the same gate in CI. Commits are signed off (DCO).
• Ideas — no code needed. The issue forms cover quests, dialogue scripts, maps, [Skill] interactions, and anything else. A one-liner like "the player goes with a goblin tribe to clear a mothbear infestation" is enough to start; accepted ideas get developed into full specs.
• Playtest feedback: play the demo, then file a Playtest feedback issue — bugs, confusion, pacing, things you loved. Past playtest sittings have driven whole releases.
• Art & music: CONTRIBUTING-ASSETS.md has the exact pixel and audio specs.

Everyone here follows the Code of Conduct.

Fan-work status & licenses

Unofficial, non-commercial fan project, made with love and not endorsed by pirateaba — per the fanworks policy: full credit to pirateaba, nothing here is sold or monetized, and nothing here is official. Code is MIT (LICENSE); media licensing is per-asset (ATTRIBUTION.md). The Wandering Inn, its world, and its characters belong to pirateaba. Read the serial at wanderinginn.com.

AI disclosure

This game is built with substantial AI assistance, openly. A portion of the pixel art (several character sprites and props) is AI-generated via PixelLab and disclosed per-asset in ATTRIBUTION.md. The model-neutral skills used to build it ship in this repo (.agents/skills/), with generated provider adapters. Contributors using AI tooling are welcome, and AI-assisted contributions must be disclosed in PRs per CONTRIBUTING.md.