Gorched
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Terminal based free open source game inspired by "The Mother of all games" Scorched Earth.
Features
- rendered in terminal
- ASCII graphics (actually few unicode symbols were used)
- procedurally generated world
- terrain destruction
- turn based multiplayer
- open source: https://github.com/zladovan/gorched
Try online
You can try Gorched online on gorched.zladovan.repl.run.
Note that performance in online terminal can be worse than in real terminal !
Installation
General
Download archive for your platform from releases page and unpack it to some directory on your file system.
Linux
If you are using snap just run:
sudo snap install gorched
MacOS
If you are using homebrew just run:
brew install zladovan/tap/gorched
Windows
If you are using scoop run:
scoop bucket add zladovan https://github.com/zladovan/scoop-bucket scoop install gorched
How to play
Gorched currently has only one mode where two players are playing locally against each other. The goal is to find out correct angle and power to hit the enemy tank. Gameplay is turn based and each player has one attempt per turn. When some player hits the enemy he gains score and game continues in next round with different terrain.
Controls
- ← → change angle of cannon
- SPACE start loading (1st hit) and shoot (2nd hit)
- Ctrl+C exit game
- Ctrl+R restart current round
- Ctrl+N start next round
- S show score
- A show player's attributes
- H show help
When running from browser use just R / N instead of Ctrl+R / Ctrl+N
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Author | zladovan |
Genre | Strategy |
Tags | ascii, Procedural Generation, Tanks, Turn-based |
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Looks coooool. Pls rewrite in good lang like c/c++