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Anyone remember Soldat? https://www.soldat.pl/en/ https://www.soldat.pl/en/ > It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and giv

Anyone remember Soldat? https://www.soldat.pl/en/ https://www.soldat.pl/en/ > It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Little ragdoll soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal.

doublerabbit 3y ago
And created in Delphi. I used to host a popular soldat server in the day; good times. Shame it never regained popularity with the steam release.
rzzzt 3y ago
I found Soldat while searching for another, top-down perspective game from the genre, which I found on a demo disc once. That was Tremor Gold: https://www.tigsource.com/2008/02/20/multiplayer-on-one-keyboard-2-tremor/ https://www.tigsource.com/2008/02/20/multiplayer-on-one-keyb... Jump'n'Bump, anyone?
- continuational 3y ago
  Jump'n'Bumb is such a blast! I even made a clone of it in JS with a friend. Gotta try Tremor. Looks a bit like Cyberdogs!
  - pilaf 3y ago
    Is your JS clone published somewhere?
    - continuational 3y ago
      I'm afraid not, but someone else put up a port of the original you can play online here: https://jumpnbump.net/ https://jumpnbump.net/
- pilaf 3y ago
  Jump'n'Bump was awesome. I played it so often back then that I made a GUI launcher for it, since you could change various settings through command line flags only. Brainchild Design[0], the studio that made it, had some other fun and highly polished games too, Quadnet was one of my favorites. [0] https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/profile/brainchild-design https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/profile/brainchild-design
albertzeyer 3y ago
Soldat is open source now: https://github.com/soldat/soldat https://github.com/soldat/soldat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058312
- bubbab 3y ago
  Oh wow, a familiar name from the OpenLieroX days! Do you still do any Liero related work? OLX was like peak Liero for me, at least for the multiplayer community, clan wars and all that. Lots of good times back in the 2010s.
  - albertzeyer 3y ago
    The repo is here: https://github.com/albertz/openlierox https://github.com/albertz/openlierox Unfortunately, I don't really find the time anymore. It was really fun working on it, but it took an incredibly amount of time, and now my focus shifted to many other things (deep learning, family). I probably should release some updated binaries at some point though, such that it works properly on more recent OS.
taskforcegemini 3y ago
there is now a soldat2. but there is also "butcher", kind of a single player successor to soldat from the same creator
- s-dsds 3y ago
  butcher is published by the creators of soldat, but is developped by Phobia Game Studio (maker of Carrion) and, as for soldat, they've been quite opened about their inspiration from Liero (enough for drawing liero midi art on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXu65Bx0dFo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXu65Bx0dFo ) (so different team than soldat, but common inspirations :))
therein 3y ago
Came back to this thread today to mention Soldat. It was a nice game.

doublerabbit 3y ago

And created in Delphi. I used to host a popular soldat server in the day; good times. Shame it never regained popularity with the steam release.

rzzzt 3y ago

I found Soldat while searching for another, top-down perspective game from the genre, which I found on a demo disc once. That was Tremor Gold: https://www.tigsource.com/2008/02/20/multiplayer-on-one-keyboard-2-tremor/ https://www.tigsource.com/2008/02/20/multiplayer-on-one-keyb... Jump'n'Bump, anyone?

continuational 3y ago
Jump'n'Bumb is such a blast! I even made a clone of it in JS with a friend. Gotta try Tremor. Looks a bit like Cyberdogs!
- pilaf 3y ago
  Is your JS clone published somewhere?
  - continuational 3y ago
    I'm afraid not, but someone else put up a port of the original you can play online here: https://jumpnbump.net/ https://jumpnbump.net/
pilaf 3y ago
Jump'n'Bump was awesome. I played it so often back then that I made a GUI launcher for it, since you could change various settings through command line flags only. Brainchild Design[0], the studio that made it, had some other fun and highly polished games too, Quadnet was one of my favorites. [0] https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/profile/brainchild-design https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/profile/brainchild-design

albertzeyer 3y ago

Soldat is open source now: https://github.com/soldat/soldat https://github.com/soldat/soldat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058312

bubbab 3y ago
Oh wow, a familiar name from the OpenLieroX days! Do you still do any Liero related work? OLX was like peak Liero for me, at least for the multiplayer community, clan wars and all that. Lots of good times back in the 2010s.
- albertzeyer 3y ago
  The repo is here: https://github.com/albertz/openlierox https://github.com/albertz/openlierox Unfortunately, I don't really find the time anymore. It was really fun working on it, but it took an incredibly amount of time, and now my focus shifted to many other things (deep learning, family). I probably should release some updated binaries at some point though, such that it works properly on more recent OS.

taskforcegemini 3y ago

there is now a soldat2. but there is also "butcher", kind of a single player successor to soldat from the same creator

s-dsds 3y ago
butcher is published by the creators of soldat, but is developped by Phobia Game Studio (maker of Carrion) and, as for soldat, they've been quite opened about their inspiration from Liero (enough for drawing liero midi art on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXu65Bx0dFo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXu65Bx0dFo ) (so different team than soldat, but common inspirations :))

therein 3y ago

Came back to this thread today to mention Soldat. It was a nice game.