Simplevaders

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It's a game, written in opengl.
Requires 17 mb ram free, OpenGL acceleration.
The precompiled binary (called precompiled) runs on debian-lenny with sdl, sdl-mixer,sdl-ttf and sdl-image.

To compile you need sdl,sdl-ttf,sdl-image,sdl-mixer and opengl and glut libs to compile.

Now saves settings into $HOME/.simplevaders.cfg

Download newest version (0.8b) here (source and precompiled binary).

If you get slow performance try adding --nostars --noparticles.
If you hate bright red blinking, or dont want to die from epileptic attacks you should add --noblink aswell :)
If you have other trouble with performance, try adding --sleep somenumberlarger than 10000 larger = lower fps = less required cpu cycles,
You can save about a meg of ram by adding --nosound.

The game gets really hard after level 17, i may fix that.. You are welcome to fix it for me :P
My current highscore is level 22 with 483285 points.

Heres the help file:
./simplevaders -h

simplevaders - a space-invaders like game that is nothing like space-invaders.
Usage:
. simplevaders [--nosound] [--fullscreen] [--noblink] [--x pixels] [--y pixels] [--nostars] [--noparticles] [--sleep USeconds]

Controls:
. s = toggle sound (if enabled)
. f = toggle fullscreen
. a = toggle starfield
. arrows = move ship
. lctrl = shoot

Joystick 0:
. btn0 = shoot
. xy aix.. go figure.

I recommend the Speedlink Competition Pro USB or similar if you want to play with a arcade joystick.

simplevaders Rocks! Sux! Didn't Compile Was never downloaded