This file has been dedicated to the public domain, to the extent possible under applicable law, via CC0. See http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ for more information. This file is offered as-is, without any warranty. ======================================================================== Thank you for downloading Project: Starfighter! This readme is just a basic overview of the game and instructions for building; for instructions on how to play the game, see docs/index.html. Project: Starfighter is a space shoot 'em up game originally developed by Parallel Realities in 2002, and released in 2003. You assume the role of Chris Bainfield in his quest to put an end to WEAPCO, the weapons corporation which has enslaved the galaxy. If you played one of the versions of Project: Starfighter distributed by Parallel Realities, you might notice some differences in this version compared to the original: * The graphics, sounds, and music are all completely different. This is because most of the original media was not properly licensed, and therefore needed to be replaced to make the game 100% libre. Most of this work was done by the previous project at SourceForge; the current project completed that work by adding music and replacing one non-libre graphic that got into version 1.2 by mistake. * There are several gameplay changes. These changes were mostly done to balance the game better. However, if you want the original experience, "Classic" difficulty approximates it as closely as possible. * Much of the dialog has been changed. There are various reasons for this; some of these include fixing bad writing, making the dialog match new music queues, and giving the characters more personality. * In many places, the interface has been considerably improved. As an example, the simplistic target arrow of the original has been replaced with a system of several arrows, one for each ship. * Typing "humansdoitbetter" in the title screen no longer enables cheats. This is actually because the switch to SDL2 broke the original feature, and rather than fixing it, I just replaced it with something else. I'll let you figure out what the new method to access the cheat menu is. :) COMPILING FROM SOURCE Project: Starfighter depends on the following libraries to build: * SDL2 * SDL2_image * SDL2_mixer Once you have all dependencies installed, you can do the following: ./configure make make install Run "./configure --help" to see more options. The third step ("make install") is technically optional, but highly recommended. For most GNU/Linux systems, an icon should be added to your menu when you run "make install". You can click on this icon to start up the game. Otherwise, you can manually install or use the launcher found in the "misc" directory, or you can run the "starfighter" command to start up the game. If you choose not to use the "make install" command, you can find the "starfighter" binary in the "src" directory.