Assault Wing -- Greedy boys shall die - again
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Assault Wing is a fast paced multiplayer action game. Two or more players fly their ships in cave-like two-dimensional arenas and shoot each other. Thus, Assault Wing could be called a cave flying game or a cave flyer. Assault Wing for Linux is under heavy construction, so there's much nothing to say about it – yet.

The Linux version of Assault Wing is actually a remake of our old DOS game of the same name. However, many new features are planned to be made to the Linux version, so there is going to be a great difference between these two. The final DOS version can be downloaded from www.finnishgames.com. A review can be found at Free-Games-Net.

The idea for multiplayer cave flying games such as Assault Wing is old. Turboraketti is a well-known ancestor in this genre. And if one digs the archives, he can find cave flying such games on the Commodore 64 as Caverns of Eriban and Thrust. As an example of a modern(?!) Unix cave flyer one can mention XPilot (our potential rival, perhaps I shouldn't advertise ;-). )

However, Auts - a classic cave flyer running on the good old DOS - was the original reason why we began creating Assault Wing in the first place. Auts had several oddities that we thought we could easily fix in our own game. Several months passed before we had a simple screen where two players could control different colored pixels (their ships!) and shoot each other. That was all we needed for the actual game. From there on, we just added cool things as we and our friends (thanks to them) invented them. After a year of developing, a buggy but otherwise very playable and nice looking game was finished.

The Linux version of Assault Wing aims to be at least as good a game as the DOS version is. Our long-term to-do list includes supporting playing over a computer network, converting Assault Wing to Windows, BeOS and MacOS, and implementing a computer opponent.

Assault Wing for Linux is developed as open source under GNU Public License. It means that you can go and use our code for making your own games (there are some restrictions, though). Great, huh? Thanks to SourceForge.net, we have a CVS repository and this home page.

Page updated on Wednesday 2009-07-15 <ville@users.sourceforge.net>
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