1 Warmux 2 ====== 3 4These are the release notes for Warmux 5 61/ What is Warmux ? 7=================== 8 9Have the mascots of your favorite free software battle in the Warmux 10arena. Using dynamite, grenades, baseball bats and other weapons... 11exterminate your opponent in a 2D toon style scenery and 12a funny environment. 13 14Each player (2 minimum, on the same PC) controls the team of his 15choice (tux, gnu, firefox, wilber,...) and must destroy his 16adversary using more or less casual weapons. 17 18Although a minimum of strategy is required to vanquish, Warmux is 19pre-eminently a "convivial mass murder" game where, turn by turn, each 20member of each team attempts to produce a maximum of damage to his 21opponents. 22 232/ How to play ? 24================ 25 26Understanding how to play Warmux is very simple. 27 282.1/ Controls 29============= 30 31* Key tab: Change active character 32* Key 'c': Recenter to active character 33* Key left/right: walk to the left / to the right 34* Key up/down: Move cursor (used by the bazooka, gun, etc.), ie. shoot angle 35* Key space: Shoot. Exceptions: the parachute is automaticly deployed, 36 and teleportation is made with mouse (right) click. 37 Warning: Automatic bazooka need a target first (select it with left click) 38* Mouse right click: Show/hide weapons menu 39* Mouse left click: Select target for teleportation or automatic bazooka 40* Mouse left click on a character: Make it active (if it's allowed) 41* Mouse middle click: Move the map 42* Key F1, F2, .. F5: Change weapon in category 1, 2, ... 5 43* Key escape : Leave the game (confirmation necessary) 44* Key 'b' : ("Backwards") jump 45* Key enter: ("Horizontal") jump 46* Key backspace: ("Vertical") jump 47* Mouse move next to screen borders: Move the map 48* Key F10 : Toggle Fullscreen 49 502.2/ Additional help 51==================== 52 53On the website, you will find some useful help: 54* List of weapons: http://www.warmux.org/phpboost/wiki/wiki.php 55* List of maps: http://www.warmux.org/phpboost/wiki/wiki.php 56 * How to write your own map: http://www.warmux.org/phpboost/wiki/wiki.php 57* List of skins: http://www.warmux.org/phpboost/wiki/wiki.php 58* Forum: http://www.warmux.org/phpboost/forum/ 59 603/ On which system can I play out-of-the-box ? 61============================================== 62 63Warmux is available out-of-the-box on a wide variety of systems (have 64a look at http://www.warmux.org/phpboost/download for an up-to-date list): 65 66* Linux based systems: 67 * Debian (Sarge/Etch/Sid) 68 * Ubuntu (Dapper/Edgy) 69 * Fedora Core (4/5) 70 * Mandriva (2006/2007) 71 * Gentoo 72 * Slackware 73 * SourceMage 74 * PLD 75 * Crux 76 * Sorcerer Grimoire 77 78* FreeBSD 79 80* Windows 81 82* Mac OSX 83 84 854/ Misc links 86============= 87 88* Official web site: http://www.warmux.org/ 89* Project management page: https://gna.org/projects/warmux/ 90 91