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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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Post by coffeebeqn »

pimlottc wrote: post #37

In what sense is this the "original" Worms game? Is there a particular tie between them? There's been a lot of ballistic artillery games going back to the very dawn of computers.

It’s not related to “Worms” from Team 17 at all. Both have pixel worms blowing each other up though

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by TehShrike »

yboris wrote: post #64

I'm a fan of artillery games. I created Gravity Wars (based on previous art) - artillery in space where planets pull projectiles with gravity: https://github.com/whyboris/Gravity-Wars

I'm not able to get it to work – installing Love got me a love.app file, but nothing I can run in the terminal.

The Love docs imply that the contents of your repo need to be be zipped up and then... something else happens? https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution

If you could make an idiots guide to running the game, I'd appreciate it, I've been wanting an orbit-based game like this for a long time

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by TehShrike »

TehShrike wrote: post #83
yboris wrote: post #64

I'm a fan of artillery games. I created Gravity Wars (based on previous art) - artillery in space where planets pull projectiles with gravity: https://github.com/whyboris/Gravity-Wars

I'm not able to get it to work – installing Love got me a love.app file, but nothing I can run in the terminal. The Love docs imply that the contents of your repo need to be be zipped up and then... something else happens? https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution If you could make an idiots guide to running the game, I'd appreciate it, I've been wanting an orbit-based game like this for a long time

I got it – these are the steps I took:

  1. Download Love from https://love2d.org/
  2. Launch love.app
  3. git clone git@github.com:whyboris/Gravity-Wars.git
  4. cd Gravity-Wars.git
  5. zip -9 -r GravityWars.love .
  6. open GravityWars.love

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by tomxor »

You can also play multiplayer in the browser at webliero.com

There is an active community, simple to pick up and play, no login. Although most of the active servers use some more fast paced mods with different weapons, but you can start your own server in the browser with the classic mod.

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by matheusmoreira »

askonomm wrote: post #49
kimmk wrote: post #26

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...

Not just Finland, Liero was big in Estonia, too! I remember I got Liero on a floppy disk from a friend early 00's and ran it on my Win98. Good ol' days. Terep2 was another great game.

Brazil too. Used to play this with family and friends, especially one of my cousins. Also played it quite a few times with friends in computer classes. Everyone could play using the same keyboard at the same time, it was crazy.

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by bubbab »

albertzeyer wrote: post #42
codetrotter wrote: post #28

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.

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

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.
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