SpaceZero is a 2D space combat, multiplayer (two players by now) net game.
The objective is to conquest the space, defeating all enemies. At starting point you have only one ship and one planet, but you have money to buy more ships to conquest more planets. All the ships can be controlled by the computer (automatic mode) or by the player (manual mode). You can easily change among your ships controlling all of them independly. Home Page http://spacezero.sourceforge.net/index.html |
At the starting point the player own a ship landed in a planet.
Ships:There are three types of ships: Explorer, Fighter and Defense Tower.
Orders menu:It is possible to give orders to ships: pressing the "o" key a bar menu is showed in the bottom of the main window. Several options are available:
Manual and automatic mode:You can change between both modes, for all your ships, pressing the "a" key for manual mode and pressing the "i" key to back to the automatic mode.
Selecting a ship:There three ways of selecting a ship:
Weapons:The ships have three types of weapons.
Depending of the level of the ship some weapons are available or
not. At level 0 only the shots are available. The fighter have two
more weapons: missile at level 1 and laser at level 2. All the ships
increase their weapons strength and their shields when pass to the
next level. Map:Pressing the "m" key you enter in the map view. All your
ships and all known planets are shown. Ships and planets info:Pressing the "f5" key a sort information of all your ships and planets is showed. Pressing the "f6" key a sort game statistics are shown. Navigate information:
Size of the Universe:Its possible to choose the size of the Universe, the number of galaxies and the total number of planets. Use the command line options: -l, -g and -n.The units of the universe size are pixels. Net gamming:For two players net game: one must be configured as the server and the other one as the client. Use the command line options:$ space -s -ip ipnumber for the server, and $ space -c -ip ipnumber for the client. SpaceZero use the port 8000 by default. You can use another port adding -port portnumber in the command line. SpaceZero use also the next port, by default 8001. Tips:-Don't buy more than two or three towers by planet unless you need to defend the planet. -Watch out your explorers, don't let them go too far. -You can form groups of ships ordering to some of them GOTO another ship. All of them will go where this last one go. -Save some money. It would be useful if you are under attack. |
Not tested in net between 32 and 64 machines. Maybe doesnt work properly.
Not tested in an internet connection. Maybe doesnt work properly.
Please send bugs and suggestions to mrevenga@users.sourceforge.net.
up arrow | accelerate. |
left,right arrows | turn left, right. |
space | fire. |
tab | change to next ship. |
Ctrl-tab | change to previous ship. |
1 2 3 | choose weapon. |
Ctrl-[f1f2f3f4] | mark a ship. |
f1 f2 f3 f4 | select a previous marked ship. |
f5 | show a ship list. |
f6 | show game statistics. |
o | enter in order menu. |
Esc | exit from order menu. |
m | show-hide space map. |
a i | automatic-manual mode. |
p | pause game |
Ctrl-q | quit game. |
z Z | zoom in out. |
arrow keys | move map. |
space | center map in the actual ship. |
mouse pointer | show coordinates. |
l | show-hide labels. |
-h. | Brief help. |
-n n. | Where n is the number of planets.(default 20) |
-p n. | Where n is the number of players.(default 2) |
-g n. | Where n is the number of galaxies.(default 1) |
-l n. | Where n is the size of the Universe.(default 100000) |
-k. | Planets are known by all the players. |
-nosound. | Sound disabled. |
-nomusic. | Music disabled. |
-s, -c. | Server,client mode. |
-ip IP. | Where IP is the ip of the server. |
-port n. | Where n is the port used for communication. |
-name playername. | Where playername is the name of the player. |
-f font. | Change the default font by font. |
-geom widthxheigth. | Define the size of the main window. |
Defense Satellite |
Unmanned ship. Useful for space exploration and planet defense. |
Cargo |
Ship than can carry arms and fighters. |
Hyper-space ship |
Big ship than can carry fighters and arms. Can reach light velocity. |