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Warmux – An old Worms clone project (2016)

45 points by aurelien 9y ago

ycmbntrthrwaway 9y ago
https://www.hedgewars.org/ https://www.hedgewars.org/
- albertzeyer 9y ago
  Also, related, are the Liero-style games (disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of OpenLieroX), which is kind of a real-time Worms 2D shooter game, also with the ninja rope, destroyable terrain, and lots of weapons. http://github.com/albertz/openlierox http://github.com/albertz/openlierox | http://www.openlierox.net/ http://www.openlierox.net/ I really hesitate to call it dead but the truth it that I (as well as the other devs) really have almost no time since the last 5 years or so to work much on it. Of course, any contributions are very much welcome, and I am very happy to guide any development. Also the original Liero, and OpenLiero / Liero 1.36: http://www.liero.be/ http://www.liero.be/ OpenLiero was done by Erik Lindroos (Gliptic), who was one of the main developers of Gusanos (http://gusanos.sourceforge.net/ http://gusanos.sourceforge.net/), another very cool Liero clone, very much more flexible with Lua scripting and very cool graphic effects such as lightning, which is unfortunately also dead. But it lives on in OpenLieroX. We merged the code bases a while ago. And of course, much more famous now but similar game spirit, is Teeworlds: https://www.teeworlds.com/ https://www.teeworlds.com/
  - mrlc 9y ago
    I've been looking for the name of 'this one game' for the last few months and i would never have expected to find it on hn. i'd been disappointed it wasn't warmux but then you came around and mentioned liero. you don't know how much this was bugging me, thank you very much.
- anfractuosity 9y ago
  That's pretty cool :) I'm just wondering if there's a way to make some of the icons etc. bigger on a hidpi display, without lowering the resolution?
ekianjo 9y ago
A Free Software project is never really dead. As long as the source is around there's always a remote possibility someone will come and pick it up at some point and continue development. There's been such projects in the past, with no updates for nearly 10 years and then suddenly new development pickup up.
andybak 9y ago
Not while there's a nice big button in the top right labelled "fork".
aw3c2 9y ago
(2016)
roddux 9y ago
Haha, I fondly remember this game. If I recall correctly, this was (is?) in the Debian repos about 4 or so years ago. Shame to hear it's been abandoned these days!
- jwilk 9y ago
  It's still there: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/warmux https://packages.debian.org/unstable/warmux
krzyk 9y ago
I there a similar clone of Scorched Earth? It was quite fun before the Worms days.

45 points by aurelien 9y ago

ycmbntrthrwaway 9y ago

https://www.hedgewars.org/ https://www.hedgewars.org/

albertzeyer 9y ago
Also, related, are the Liero-style games (disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of OpenLieroX), which is kind of a real-time Worms 2D shooter game, also with the ninja rope, destroyable terrain, and lots of weapons. http://github.com/albertz/openlierox http://github.com/albertz/openlierox | http://www.openlierox.net/ http://www.openlierox.net/ I really hesitate to call it dead but the truth it that I (as well as the other devs) really have almost no time since the last 5 years or so to work much on it. Of course, any contributions are very much welcome, and I am very happy to guide any development. Also the original Liero, and OpenLiero / Liero 1.36: http://www.liero.be/ http://www.liero.be/ OpenLiero was done by Erik Lindroos (Gliptic), who was one of the main developers of Gusanos (http://gusanos.sourceforge.net/ http://gusanos.sourceforge.net/), another very cool Liero clone, very much more flexible with Lua scripting and very cool graphic effects such as lightning, which is unfortunately also dead. But it lives on in OpenLieroX. We merged the code bases a while ago. And of course, much more famous now but similar game spirit, is Teeworlds: https://www.teeworlds.com/ https://www.teeworlds.com/
- mrlc 9y ago
  I've been looking for the name of 'this one game' for the last few months and i would never have expected to find it on hn. i'd been disappointed it wasn't warmux but then you came around and mentioned liero. you don't know how much this was bugging me, thank you very much.
anfractuosity 9y ago
That's pretty cool :) I'm just wondering if there's a way to make some of the icons etc. bigger on a hidpi display, without lowering the resolution?

ekianjo 9y ago

A Free Software project is never really dead. As long as the source is around there's always a remote possibility someone will come and pick it up at some point and continue development. There's been such projects in the past, with no updates for nearly 10 years and then suddenly new development pickup up.

andybak 9y ago

Not while there's a nice big button in the top right labelled "fork".

aw3c2 9y ago

(2016)

roddux 9y ago

Haha, I fondly remember this game. If I recall correctly, this was (is?) in the Debian repos about 4 or so years ago. Shame to hear it's been abandoned these days!

jwilk 9y ago
It's still there: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/warmux https://packages.debian.org/unstable/warmux

krzyk 9y ago

I there a similar clone of Scorched Earth? It was quite fun before the Worms days.