IOTD: Kraptor

Kraptor, by kronoman

http://kraptor.sf.net/

Kraptor is a classic shoot 'em up scroller game, where you must fight against tons of bad dudes.
The game offers high speed action, with massive destruction and lots of fun.
Kraptor features a powerful engine for 2D shooter scroller games.
Massive destruction, powerful weapons, all that you always wanted in this kind of games!
It is also multi-platform (DOS, Win32, Linux and more!)

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Some of the main features of the engine and the game itself:

FULL SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE FREE (Under MIT license)
Works on many platforms, including DOS, Windows and Linux!
Supports all resolutions, like 320x200, 640x480, 1024x768, etc.; even those bizarre ones, like 160x120, 320x400, etc.
Uses stereo positional sound (you hear the ships flying around you)
Has a incredible particle system, that let all sorts of particle effects in the explosions, fire on the ground, the ships going down in flames,and the weapons can let a trail of smoke, beams, etc
Has a dynamic fire, smoke and explosions system based on layers and on-fly rendering, that let show a massive destruction effect on the air and ground.
Has a dynamic enviroment sub-engine to render rain, snow, etc.
The ships explodes into pieces, and the builds on the ground blows up in a chain-explosion effect.
Enemys of any size, and custom IAs and weapons.
All kind of animated bad dudes, from tiny ones to big bad bosses.
All the flying objects cast shadows over the background, with perspective correction.
Support for animations and cinematic, with sound and subtitles.
A on-fly translation system with UNICODE and UTF-8 support, that can translate on the fly all the GUIs to other language.
Multiple weapons for player and enemies.
Has original music sound-track.
You can lower/raise the detail level, in low detail, the game runs good even on a 486 DX2!
Original story, with cool movies.
Realistic huge hi-res backgrounds levels.
Original high quality stereo sounds and music
Support for Spanish and English translation on-fly
'Black market' shop to buy new weapons, upgrade ship, etc.
GUI driven interface like the one used in Unre*l.
You can Save / Load your game

More features will be added soon... stay tuned!
http://kraptor.sf.net/

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