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Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Liero is part of the Finnish shareware game scene that lasted from early 90s to mid 00s [1]. These games are super nostalgic for me and a lot of other tech minded Finns of my age! [1] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luettelo_suomalaisista_sharewa...

My favorites in the Finnish scene were the cave shooters (luolalentely). Games such as Auts or V-Wing. Are there any modern games available in this genre?

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

#72
post #62

I've played Noita ( https://noitagame.com/ ) for quite a bit, and lately it clicked to me, that the core mechanics of the player and environment come from Liero. Though Noita is a single player rouge-lite, it has wands instead of guns, but environment is destructible, and explosions work the same. It's much deeper, both in mechanics and in lore, it has actual levels with progressions, but I was curious why did I enjo…

I think the devs for Noita said something about building the Falling Sand Game + Liero together as one game.

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

#73

Anyone remember Soldat? 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.

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

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

#76
post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sweden as well, me and my friends played it frequently to distract ourselves in CS class.

What school did you go to? We played this _a lot_ at Norra Real, Stockholm XD

I’m (not parent) from a small town in Västra Götaland (Sweden) and we played it a lot as well :)

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

#77
post #39

Related: Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980676 - April 2020 (86 comments) Show HN: A browser-based multiplayer clone of the DOS game Liero using WebRTC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20668273 - Aug 2019 (7 comments)

I assume our hero dang has some automation in place but sometimes I dream about him rembering all posts and carefully linking the beloved topics with past occurrences.

If you will it, it is no dream.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25964774

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

#78

Anyone remember Soldat? 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.

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

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 ) (so different team than soldat, but common inspirations :))

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See also: LieroX/OpenLieroX We played LieroX a lot at school as we could add a bunch of fun mods to it and it was networked. I think at the time, LieroX had just came out too, so it was fresh compared to Liero.

Also NiL ("NiL isn't Liero"), a re-imagination of the game running on Linux: http://web.archive.org/web/20001007120330/http://www.linuxwo...

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Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

#80
My highest claim to fame is to be in the original Liero readme credits. I sent in the idea for a capture the flag mode as a kid. Me and my friends spent some hundreds of hours playing it. I remember you could tweak the reload speed of the weapons somehow to make it pure madness
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