Depot Games: Purple Martians

Current Version: 7.0

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
Completely redone with Allegro 5.2.4
Display routines are all new, with dynamic resizing during game.
Numerous small bugfixes and improvements.
Still works perfectly with XP, 7, 10 and linux.

6.0
8 player Netgame
Works identically on XP, 7, 10 and linux
Thousands of improvements and refinements

5.0
- Works identically under Linux and Windows
- Two players can play simultaneously
- A new soundtrack by Russel Hoy
- Entire project is now C++ (even though it uses no objects!)
- Numerous minor bugfixes