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David Ashley
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dash@xdr.com
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990207 11:24 PST
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This is work in progress and might be of absolutely no use whatsoever.
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This is a Bomberman clone. I bought a game called Atomic Bomberman and found
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it awful, there were intolerable delays after each game in network play while
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the game was downloading data (what data?) over the network. Really crappy job
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they did but I liked the artwork and sound effects.
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Atomic Bomberman was a DOS/win95 game. I looked under linux games and found
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xblast but it was unusable for various reasons. For example its network
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support just relies on xwindows networking--before entering the game you've
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got to type in the host:display of each person who will be playing. Only
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the main machine gets any sound. Also in the game you kept moving in whatever
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direction you had last hit until you hit a wall or hit another direction.
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There was no point in using the source as a starting point, there were so
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many critical design flaws in that version I decided to write my own game from
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scratch.
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Currently the game will most likely only be playable on a LAN.
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Some machine must run the matcher program. Players register their game with
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the matcher machine, and joiners query the matcher machine to get a list of
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active games. On xdr.com there is a matcher program running and the bomber.c
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mname[] definition points to xdr.com. I tried it and it didn't work on my
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own LAN through a firewall. You can try the game as is and it might work using
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xdr.com as a matcher. Otherwise you'll have to run your own matcher daemon on
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some machine. Assuming you have 3 machines tom, dick and harry and you want
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to play a 3 player game, you would modify bomber.c's mname definiton to
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be (line 47 of bomber.c)
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char mname[]="tom";
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Then on tom run the matcher program as a background task.
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Compile and distribute duplicate copies of bomber and data/* files, then
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run bomber on each machine. The menus should be self explanatory--one person
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selects HOST NETWORK GAME and the other people select JOIN NETWORK GAME.
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----------------- How to play ---------------------------
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You've got to blow up other players to win. Spacebar drops a bomb. Get away
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and hope your enemy gets hit by the flame. The 'b' key is a 2nd control
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for when you are lucky enough to pick up the bomb control--looks like a
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bomb with a timer on it. When you have that the bomb won't go off until
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detonated by another bomb, you are killed, or you press 'b'.
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Blowing up bricks might result in prizes, most of which are good.
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Skates = speed up
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Bomb = allow you to have one more active bomb
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flame = Increase bomb strength
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turtle = makes you move very slowly
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bomb with timer = controlled bomb detonation with 'b' key.
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gold flame = Set flame strength to max
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There isn't much point in playing the game alone (single player). In that
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case the only thing to avoid is accidentally killing yourself. Big deal...
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It's really a multiplayer game.
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Direct comments, complaints and questions to dash@xdr.com
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This code is GPL.
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