Xsoldier

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title:	Xsoldier	🕹️ / 🛠️ Type:	Game
🗃️ Genre:	Arcade	👁️ Visual:	2D
🏷️ Category:	Arcade ➤ Shooter ➤ Space ➤ Galaga	🏝️ Perspective:	Third person
🔖 Tags:		⏱️ Pacing:	Real Time
🐣️ Approx. start:		👫️ Played:	Single
🐓️ Latest:	2009-11-08	🚦 Status:	05. Tested & Working (status)
📍️ Version:	1.5	❤️ Like it:	9. ⏳️
🏛️ License type:	🕊️ Libre	🎀️ Quality:	7. ⏳️
🏛️ License:	GPL-2+	✨️ (temporary):
🐛️ Created:	2010-08-20	🐜️ Updated:	2024-06-22

📦️ Deliverables

📦️ Package name:	xsoldier	..... 📦️ Arch:
📄️ Source:		..... 📦️ RPM:
⚙️ Generic binary:		..... 📦️ Deb:
🌍️ Browser version:		..... 📦️ AppImage:
📱️ PDA support:		..... 📦️ Flatpak:
✨️ Not use:		..... 📦️ Snap:

🚦 Entry status

📰 What's new?:		👔️ Already shown:
💡 Lights on:		💭️ New version published (to be updated):
🎨️ Significant improvement:		🦺️ Work in progress:
🎖️ This work:		🚧️ Some work remains to be done:
👫️ Contrib.:	goupildb & Louis	👻️ Temporary:
🎰️ ID:	13530

📕 Description [fr]

Un shoot them up spatial de type Galaga/Galaxian.

Sa particularité est que vous ferez les meilleurs scores en économisant vos tirs, vous obtiendrez un bonus "not shooting".

🚧️ Installation ➜ 🚀️ Launching [fr]

⌨️🖱️🎮️ CONTRÔLES: ET PARAMETRES DE LANCEMENT (extrait du fichier README) :
(...)
⚬ command line options

⚬* (-d | -display) NAME
Specify the (X window) display on which you want to play the game.

⚬* (-w | -wait) NUMBER
Set the speed of the game. A higher number means the game runs slower.
NUMBER must be a positive integer. If you use this option and if NUMBER
is greater than the default (use -h to see it), the ranking mode is
turned off.

⚬* (-c | -cmap)
This option has no effect (only for backward compatibility).

⚬* (-s | -score)
Show the top 10 soldiers, that is, the high score list.

⚬* (-h | -help)
Show a short help text and exit.

⚬* -maxlevel
Force max level enemy attack, making your life really harder.

⚬* -nopausemessage
Don't show "Press [p] to resume game." message when the game is paused.
This is useful for capturing a screen snapshot.

If you compiled xsoldier with debugging features, the follwing options
are also available. They disable the ranking mode.

⚬* -stage L-S
Start the game with the stage S of the loop L. S must be a positive
integer between 1 and 8, and L must be a positive integer between
1 and 3.

⚬* -stage S
Start the game with the stage S. S must be a positive integer between
1 and 8,

⚬* -loop L
Start the game with the loop L. L must be a positive integer between
1 and 3.

⚬* -ship N
Start the game with N ships. N must be a integer between 0 and 99.

⚬* -maxpower
Make sure that you always have a maximum power weapon.

⚬ key control
cursor keys move
[LEFT SHIFT] shoot (auto-repeat)
a speed up
s speed down
p pause/resume
q quit the game
space start the game (in the title/ending)

You can use a joystick too if xsoldier is compiled with joystick support
(see INSTALL). Note that joystick support is no longer maintained.

If you compiled xsoldier with debug features, some keys are also available
for cheating:
w change weapon
c clear enemy shots
(...)

🗃️ Specifications

📦️ Deliverables

🚦 Entry status

🕸️ Links

📕 Description [fr]

🚧️ Installation ➜ 🚀️ Launching [fr]

🕵️ Test [fr]