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For games like Fighters and Q, the initial ideas were there but they were never followed through in the end. Games such as Metal Blob Solid and Starfighter took a higher priority and were finished first.

Some games are finished. They're done and there will be no more feature updates. There are projects around the net (such as bzflag) that are constantly being updated but this is not the case with our games. We set out to create a particular type of game and once it is done it is put to bed and a new project is started. Both Starfighter and Metal Blob Solid were in development for around 18 months each. This is a long time and it's good to move on once it is finished.

Then it won't be the game we set out to make. If you wish to play a certain type of game you should either buy it, develop it yourself (like we do!!) or tweak our code.

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Games such as Project: Starfighter and Blob Wars are available as RPMs. It would be best to install these games using the RPMs if you are able to. Simply download the RPM and either install it using your preferred package manager (for example, KPackage) or via the command line (if you know how).

If you have compiled from source you will need to run the command,

make install

after running make. Note that make install requires root privilages.

All the Linux downloads (aside from the binary RPMs) come with Make files. Recompiling is simply a case of untarring the source and running Make. Ensure that you have all the required development libraries before you attempt to do this. Unless you need to recompile you are better off downloading an RPM.

Here is an example of recompiling Project: Starfighter,

tar zxf starfighter.tar.gz
cd Starfighter-1.1
make
make install*

* - You will need to be root to perform this step.

Once you have done this, you can run the game simply by typing,

starfighter

into a terminal window. It is also possible create a desktop or menu icon to play the game**. To do this, create an icon / menu entry that executes "starfighter". You may need to refer to your desktop environment's documentation as to how to do this.

If you're fairly new to Linux and programming in general you may see the following when trying to recompile,

In file included from code/ai.cpp:1:
code/ai.h:4:21: SDL/SDL.h: No such file or directory
code/ai.h:5:27: SDL/SDL_image.h: No such file or directory
code/ai.h:6:27: SDL/SDL_mixer.h: No such file or directory

Most Linux users will have the appropriate SDL libraries installed on their system. However, if you do not have them you will need to download them from the SDL homepage (see above) or check your install CDs. Additional libraries may be required for other projects.

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