kriztioan/bomber

Multiplayer clone of Bomberman from David Ashley written for the `X11` windowing system

Bomber

Bomber is a popular multiplayer clone of Bomberman from David Ashley written for the X11 windowing system. This version has been adapted to also work with MacOS sound and offers several other enhancements, e.g., score counting, extra bonuses, ... Bomber is written in C. David Ashley's original code is licensed under the GPL and the message accompanying his initial release can be found in DASH.txt. Bomber will run on Linux and MacOS, where the former requires OSS support for sound, and the latter the XQuartz X11 window manager installed.

Usage

Bomber is compiled with:

make

This results in a binary executable called bomber and the game is started with:

./bomber

For the ability to play LAN multiplayer games, the hostname or IP address of a matcher should be provided as the first command line argument, for example:

./bomber 192.168.20.100

The matcher needed for LAN multiplayer games is included and compiled with:

make daemon

This results in a binary executable called matcherd. When not already running, matcherd is automatically started by Bomber, or it can be started manually with:

./matcherd &

See matcherd/README.md for additional information and configuring the matcher.

Notes

1. On MacOS XCode and the developer tools needs to be installed.
2. On Ubuntu the osspd-alsa package is needed for sound.

BSD-3 License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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