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Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
edited February 2008 in Games
Has anyone tried this? It's a online side-scrolling deathmatch-style game. It uses an Abuse-style mouse-aiming system which more games could do well to copy and includes Bionic Commando-style grapplig hooks, which are always a good thing, all done up in a cute, cartoonish style.

It's also free, open-source and available for pretty much everything, so you have no excuse not to play it.

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Gameplay video

Comments

  • ApathyApathy
    edited February 2008
    Looks interesting.

    And the grappling hooks would definitely give it a leg-up over soldat
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited February 2008
    Ah, thank god for Linux executables. I though I was going to have to compile something.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited February 2008
    Hamelin, there's a .deb for it over at getdeb.net if you want to install it properly (I seem to recall you saying that you're using Ubuntu.) 'S how I did it.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited February 2008
    Well, the first time I played my keyboard suddenly didn't work in-game, I had to reboot to escape the game.

    I will try again.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited February 2008
    That's odd. It uses "A" and "D" for movement by default, so if you were using the arrow keys you might have thought it wasn't working. That's all configurable, though.
  • brucebruce
    edited February 2008
    Hamelin wrote: »
    Ah, thank god for Linux executables. I though I was going to have to compile something.

    You call yourself a linux user? Afraid to do a little bit of compiling?
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited February 2008
    Night Lord wrote: »
    You call yourself a linux user? Afraid to do a little bit of compiling?
    No. Yes.

    I'm not using Linux because I want to here, I'm using it because Windows won't install and run on my computer.

    Don't get me wrong, it's working out pretty well for me, but that doesn't stop me from complaining about it.

    And compiling from source sucks, I've only been able to successfully do it once.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited February 2008
    It's usually a simple matter of ./configure && make && make install, but you can run into trouble in binary-based distributions like Ubuntu if you don't have the necessary header packages installed. The headers are also pretty easy to install once you know about them (since they're usually available as part of the distribution's software repository) but it can sometimes be difficult to figure out which ones you need for the app in question.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited February 2008
    Sometimes you guys hurt my brain...
  • brucebruce
    edited February 2008
    Drooling Iguana wrote: »
    It's usually a simple matter of ./configure && make && make install, but you can run into trouble in binary-based distributions like Ubuntu if you don't have the necessary header packages installed. The headers are also pretty easy to install once you know about them (since they're usually available as part of the distribution's software repository) but it can sometimes be difficult to figure out which ones you need for the app in question.

    There are however somethings you really don't want to compile. Like a kernel update which takes effing ages or the whole OS, which is why I avoided Gentoo, because when it comes to an OS I don't want it being broken at the lowest level.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited February 2008
    Well, of course in any distribution geared toward user-friendliness you pretty much never have to compile anything at all. I'm just saying that when you do it's not as difficult as it might seem.

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