Random Shooter

This is the first release of a shoot em up game written in SDL. The objective is simple: you have 1 life and 1 hit will kill you. Try and destroy as many enemies as possible before this happens.

Controls

The default controls are the arrow keys to move around, left control to fire and P to pause. The controls are configurable.

Scoring

Each enemy that you destroy will earn you a small number of points. Some enemies will drop coins when they are destroyed, collecting these will earn you a lot more points, 5 times the number of points of a regular enemy. It is important to try and destroy as many enemies as possible, as each one that gets past you will dock your score, so not destroying any enemies for a considerable amount of time might reduce your score of tens of thousands back down to 0!

Replays

The game automatically stores replay files in the user's home directory under

~/.parallelrealities/randomshooter/replay00x.dat

where x is the number of the replay. You can watch the replays off the command line by issuing the following command

randomshooter -playback <location of replay file>

Top Ten Scores

1.	EVIL RIK	8600	29th March 2008
2.	CHR	6130	6th April 2008
3.	CAP	5085	18th May 2008
4.	STEVE	5045	29th March 2008
5.	JONAS	3330	5th July 2008
6.	X	3200	8th June 2008
7.	D	2945	24th April 2008
8.	JUIFFI	2475	1st July 2008
9.	MATT	2355	25th July 2008
10.	PIERRE	2275	19th May 2008

Screenshots

Requirements

Screen Resolution: 800 x 600
Color Depth: 16 bit
Minimum Memory: Unknown
Harddrive: 1MB, plus about 50k for each replay
Controls: Keyboard or Joypad

SDL
SDL Image
SDL Mixer
SDL TTF *
SDL Net

* - Freetype is required by SDL TTF

Downloads

Filename	Version	Release	Platform	Filesize	Upload Date
randomShooter-0.4-1.i386.deb	0.4	1	Generic x86 Debian Package	358.00 KB	23rd September 2008
randomshooter-0.4-1.i586.rpm	0.4	1	Generic x86 RPM	361.00 KB	23rd September 2008
randomshooter-0.4-1.tar.gz	0.4	1	Source Tarball	357.00 KB	23rd September 2008

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Replay Files

Filename

Player

Map

Date

Score

Time

Upload Replay File

You can use the form below to upload your replay file.
Please ensure it is compressed. Either zip or gzip is fine.

License

Source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Resources are Non Free. This game should not be added to Linux distributions or respositories.

Comments for Random Shooter (3)

Blob-Gamer
January 5th, 2009 at 02:57

The ship design...is it the same design as the Firefly in Project: Starfighter?

Praeter Feror
March 31st, 2009 at 00:50

Simple, elegant, amazing...

jb
March 15th, 2010 at 19:44

What about adding the medals to Random Shooter?

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