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Copyright (C) 2015 Julian Marchant <onpon4@riseup.net>
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is,
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without any warranty.
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========================================================================
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Thank you for downloading Project: Starfighter! This readme is just a
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basic overview of the game and instructions for building; for
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instructions on how to play the game, see docs/index.html.
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Project: Starfighter is a space shoot 'em up game originally developed
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by Parallel Realities in 2002, and released in 2003. You assume the role
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of Chris Bainfield in his quest to put an end to WEAPCO, the weapons
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corporation which has enslaved the galaxy.
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If you played one of the versions of Project: Starfighter distributed by
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Parallel Realities, you might notice some differences in this version
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compared to the original:
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* The graphics, sounds, and music are all completely different. This is
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because most of the original media was not properly licensed, and
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therefore needed to be replaced to make the game 100% libre and legal.
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Most of this work was done by the previous project at SourceForge;
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this project completed that work by adding music and replacing one
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non-libre graphic that got into version 1.2 by mistake.
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* There are several gameplay changes. These changes were mostly done to
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balance the game better. However, if you want the original experience,
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"original" difficulty approximates it as closely as possible (short of
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implementing bugs on purpose).
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* Typing "humansdoitbetter" in the title screen no longer enables
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cheats. This is actually because the switch to SDL2 broke the original
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feature, and rather than fixing it, I just replaced it with something
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else. I'll let you figure out what the new method to access the cheat
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menu is. :)
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COMPILING FROM SOURCE
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Project: Starfighter depends on the following libraries to build:
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* SDL2 <http://libsdl.org>
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* SDL2_image <http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/>
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* SDL2_mixer <http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/>
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Once you have all dependencies installed, simply run:
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make
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And optionally (as root):
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make install
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If this doesn't work, you may need to tweak the makefile.
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To play, simply run the starfighter binary. |