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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 albertzeyer »

bubbab wrote: post #88
albertzeyer wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The repo is here: https://github.com/albertz/openlierox

Unfortunately, I don't really find the time anymore. It was really fun working on it, but it took an incredibly amount of time, and now my focus shifted to many other things (deep learning, family).

I probably should release some updated binaries at some point though, such that it works properly on more recent OS.

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by tricolon »

mordae wrote: post #68
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...

It was a hit in our Czech school as well. Son of a diplomat posted in Finland brought it back here.

Wait a minute, that sounds like an old friend of mine. Were his initials ŠP?

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by nnevatie »

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...

Very cool to see such a list maintained. The PaybackTime 2 is still playable, albeit without sampled sounds (crashes the emulator), here: http://rflxn.com/paybacktime2/

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by DrSiemer »

crabmusket wrote: post #60
DrSiemer wrote: post #17

Fantastic game. One of my favorite multiplayer experiences, besides San Andreas, classic UT/Q3 and some Tron based lightcycle game that was basically fast 3d multiplayer snake.

Armagetron!

Yes, that's the one! Excellent, another mystery piece of my gaming history recovered, thank you.

Others recovered in the last decade are an FMV game who's demo blew my mind back in the day (almost certainly "Deadly Tide"), a two player split screen tank battle game where you could rescue little humans besides fighting with eachother ("Fire Power") and that awesome bike trick game "Elasto Mania".

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by DrSiemer »

fodi wrote: post #67
DrSiemer wrote: post #17

Fantastic game. One of my favorite multiplayer experiences, besides San Andreas, classic UT/Q3 and some Tron based lightcycle game that was basically fast 3d multiplayer snake.

GLtron maybe? We had a blast playing it with friends in the early 2000s. Splitscreen 4-player mayhem!

Looks like that was the competition at the time, but it was Armagetron for me (found in the other suggestion)

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by Sharlin »

solardev wrote: post #46
Sharlin wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worms itself is just a Scorched Earth clone.

I mean, yes, but Liero means "worm" in Finnish, according to the wiki. Just trying to understand how these games evolved from each other (or not) for the sake of video game history :) I loved Worms when I was a kid, and wish I had discovered Liero back then!

Yeah, I know (am Finn, and played Liero a lot when it was first released). And sure, it’s not exactly wrong to describe Liero as "Worms but in realtime".

However, Liero was inspired primarily by another Finnish SW game Molez, the titles sharing two defining gameplay elements: realtime and digging. Like moles, worms live underground and dig tunnels, so they were a natural animal choice for a Molez clone.

The ninja rope in Liero, of course, is straight from Worms though.

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by svladcjelli »

Aaaah so good to see this here - played the hell out of Liero, modded it a LOT. My pals had a bunch of our own insane versions we played endlessly for years. Wonder if I can find them somewhere

Single keyboard frenetic split screen multiplayer is still a gaming nirvana I can never seem to get back to these days.

Noita is a good modern reimagining in single player, I used to quite like Soldat etc too but none had the sweet kick of Liero...

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by timhwang21 »

aljarry wrote: 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…

The larpa in Noita is a direct callback to Liero!

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by devilbunny »

aidos wrote: post #9
rixrax wrote: post #6

Loved playing Worms as a kid, not so much Liero. But before Worms, it was really Scorched Earth[0] that got me introduced to the genre. And with which I must have spent untold hours. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)

I loved Scorched Earth! Don’t know anyone else who ever played it.

Played a lot of Scorched Earth, both single- and multi-player.
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