MOJOTRON
http://mojotron.sourceforge.net

System Requirements

Pentium 166 ish
16 bit colour
X Windows or MS Windows
DirectX 8 (for Sound in Windows)
glibc 2.1 or higher (for Linux binary version)

Installation (Linux, Binary)

To unpack a tar.gz file, type:
$ tar -xzf name_of_archive.tar.gz
(or use a graphical archive tool like WinZip, GnoZip, etc.)

Mojotron packages will unpack themselves into a new subdirectory off the current directory named 'mojotron'.

Then, simply unpack it somewhere tidy, change to it's directory, and run the executable:
$ cd mojotron
$ ./mojotron

If you run into any trouble, please let me know, I want to make installation as straight-forward as possible.

Installation (Source)

To compile mojotron you'll need ClanLib-0.6 installed with headers. Version 0.6.5 will work, but getting a recent CVS checkout of the 0.6 branch is better because then frequency and volume settings on sound effects will work.

Compilation on Linux should just be a case of unpacking the source tarball and typing 'make'.

There's a Visual C++ project file if you're on Windows, but I don't have that compiler so I can't test it. I've added source files since the last port was done, but it shouldn't be too difficult to get up to date.

Installation (Windows)

Unzip the zip archive. Then go into the mojotron folder, and run mojotron.exe.

Status

The game is being polished for a 1.0 release. If you find any bugs, please tell the mailing list.

Known problems:
Sound effects and music still need work. Some keys cannot be set as use keys
In Windows with some PCI chipsets, after several minutes of play all the sprites may vanish off the screen, due to a system function giving Mojotron a time far in the future:
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q274323)

Ideas and patches are very welcome. There's a mailing list at SourceForge.

Command-line options

--fullscreen
Show the game filling the whole screen, rather than the default window. Note: Many Linux window managers get confused if you switch to another task

      with alt-tab while fullscreened, so try to avoid that.
      In Windows you may have to press return once to get the controls to
      work. It's probably something to do with window focus.

--enable-sound
--disable-sound
--enable-music
--disable-music
--record-demo

-f <filename>
Specify a custom resource file, for alternate graphics or game constants.

-v
Prints verbose messages to standard out.

Gameplay

The game is a descendant of the arcade classic Robotron, with many enhancements. Kill all the monsters on the screen to advance a level.

Controls

Like Robotron, movement is independant of which direction you're firing in. If you're not using twin joysticks like in the arcades you can aim using the cursor keys, and use the following to move around: W - aim up
A - aim left
S - aim down
D - aim right

This is just the same shape as the cursor keys, except shifted to the top left of the keyboard (a convention from the First Person Shooter genre). Firing is automatic.

The other important key is the spacebar. Use this to activate any of the diamond shaped powerups you collect.

You can pause the game by pressing 'p'.

Bonuses

Each level has a time limit, if you don't finish it in time that's OK, but if you do, you'll skip 3 levels and get an extra life.

As you travel through the game, you'll find lots of fruit scattered through the levels. If you take 3 of a kind, 3 of the same colour, or 3 with colours in the order of a rainbow, you'll receive powerups and extra lives.

Just some of the powerups in the game:

Flamethrower
(Very good for killing large enemies, but doesn't have much range)

Machine Gun
(Does a lot of damage but isn't very accurate)

Shrinker
(Shrinks everything on the screen. Good for getting out of cramped places)

Extra Time
(Gives you 5 extra seconds of warp time)

Teleport
(Puts you in a random position, hopefully away from danger)

Bomb
(Powerful explosion in the direction that you're firing)

Instacrate
(Surrounds you with a barricade of 8 pushable crates)

Ram Droid
(Covers you in the direction you're firing, and can be used to squish monsters)