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Depot Games: Purple Martians
Project Status: Completed Highest Popularity: #5 during November 2007 Links: Web Site, My Youtube Account, Download Purple Martians from itch.io Category: Platform Developers: Michael Weiss Number of Players: 8 (Direct IP (LAN/Internet)) Ports: Linux, Windows Source Code: Not Available Author's Description: A really cool platform game like Bubble Bobble, Lode Runner, or Super Mario. Its completely free. Features: - many fun and challenging levels - lots of items and enemies that are completely customizable with the level editor - bombs you can carry and throw - rockets you can ride and steer - movable lifts you can ride - switches that change blocks solid and back - springs that let you jump very high - keys that open locked blocks - doors to transport you to other places in the level - cloners that copy enemies and items - podzilla plants that pop up and shoot at you - helpful pop-up messages to help you figure stuff out - LAN networked game mode with up to eight players - user definable setup for keyboard and/or joystick - homemade sound effects - a music track by Russel Hoy - fancy scrolling help screens with images and animations - the game can handle almost any screen resolution you can throw at it - it will adapt and re-size - very smooth moving graphics - you can zoom in or out to make the amount of level shown on the screen bigger or smaller - you can adjust the frames per second to anything you like - you can choose between 15 different colors for your player - a nice graphical level selector And the best feature of all: The Level Editor to make your own levels! If you create new levels, please send them to me. The only levels I get to play are ones that I created myself, and how challenging could that be? System Requirements (or systems that I tested it on): Windows XP Windows 7 Windows 10 ubuntu-16.04.4-desktop-amd64 ubuntu-17.10.1-desktop-amd64 linuxmint-18.3-cinnamon-64bit elementaryos-0.4.1-stable.20180214 antergos-18.4-x86_64 CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1708.iso CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1708.iso Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-27-1.6 The netgame works identically across all platforms See the help file for more details, or email me. (mweiss001@gmail.com) If you download it, please take a few minutes to send me some feedback. Send your comments to: mweiss001@gmail.com Email me your new levels as e-mail attachments. Or add a review on allegro.cc. Created with: Allegro 5.2.4 MinGW-w64 7.2.0 Code Blocks 17.12 libnet-0.10.11 zlib-1.2.8 Russel Hoy wrote me a cool background soundtrack in 2000. This project is licensed under the zlib license. Source code available on request: Here is a is list of tasks you must perform to get the source code: 1. Send me an email (mweiss001@gmail.com) requesting the sources 2. Attach a new level for the game that you have created (optional) 3. Promise not to laugh at the nasty hacks and kludges in my code! Any questions, comments, or anything else, email me. (mweiss001@gmail.com) Download from the itch.io link at the top of the page: https://mweiss001.itch.io/purple-martians What's New:7.0 |
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Public Opinion Overall Rating: 9.5
The Developer
Michael Weiss
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