Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-08-20 Severity: wishlist Phorus is a GPLed game similar to Zone66. Zone66 was an old Epic game in which the player "flew" a plane through a 2D world, shooting down other planes and bombing strategic targets. It was more fun than it sounds :)
Phorus is currently alpha, but the test levels are playable [0], and the author has big plans (networking, team play, lots of cool extensions, etc) Moreover, he appears to either have graphical abilities, or have friends that do. Or maybe playing free games so much has lowered my standards for graphics :) Anyway, it's pretty compared to many other games out there, and will presumably become prettier as time goes on. (unless it does something like Freeciv did in 1.12..) The author has asked me to wait until 0.2 before releasing debs, as he wants to implement the major portions of the game engine before releasing it to a wide audience via binary distribution. Web page is http://phorus.sandwich.net . Note: the current release of the datafiles has no clear license. I've spoken with the author, and he already wants to have a DFSG-free data set before he releases 0.2, and is going to do the necessary work. (probably, from what he said, it's mostly just a matter of getting permission from the people who contributed artwork to release it under some free license) Daniel [0] at least they were until a recent snapshot broke them completely. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux torrent 2.4.9 #1 Thu Aug 16 22:49:52 EDT 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | "Do you know why the prisoner in the | | tower watches the flight of birds?" | | -- Terry Pratchett, _Reaper_Man_ | \------------- Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org -- Because. ------------/