1The gameplay of Avoid The Roid is very similar to asteroids. In single player mode, the player moves his ship around, trying to shoot all the asteroids without running into any asteroids. The asteroids show up as light gray dots on the radar when they are in front of you and dark gray dots when they are behind you. The enemy ships show up as light red dots when they are in front of you and dark red dots when they are behind you. 2 3The default keys are as follows: 4w - thrust forward 5s - thrust backward 6u - rotate counter-clockwise 7o - rotate clockwise 8i - pitch downward 9k - pitch upward 10j - turn left 11l - turn right 12r - fire shot 13q - turn on shield 14t - show score (Deathmatch only) 15x - quit game 16 17The keys and other game options can be configured through the game menus. 18The number of asteroids, amount of powerups, and other gameplay options can be configured in the ATRServerConfig or ATRServerSingleConfig file. 19 20To start the game in windows, run the atr3d.exe executable. To start the game in linux, run the atr3d executable. 21 22Avoid The Roid also has several multiplayer modes. To play a multiplayer game, first modify Server Configuration file to configure the game, then configure the game for each client and change the Server IP and Server Port variables to the IP address and port of the server that the game server is running on. Then start the server and on each client select the start multiplayer game option. To start the game in dedicated server mode type atr3d -ds. 23