BZFlag
BZFlag is a 3D, multiplayer, tank battle zone, capture the flag game that pits players against each other in a networked environment. It runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Linux, MacOS 10.x, Irix, Solaris, and others. An OpenGL accelerator is highly recommended, but it is playable with 3D in software.
| Tags | Games/Entertainment Simulation Communications Chat Arcade First Person Shooters Real Time Strategy |
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| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows Windows POSIX BSD FreeBSD IRIX Linux Solaris Mac OS X BeOS Unix |
| Implementation | C++ |
| Translations | Czech Danish German Dutch French Italian Portuguese Spanish Swedish |
Recent releases
- 21 Apr 2008 13:47
Changes: This release adds -tkannounce to announce tk on the admin channel. It adds plugins for serverControl, keepaway, koth, timedctf, teamflagreset, wwzones, and flagstay. It adds APIs for resetting bzdb, getting player pause state, reload bans and other files, shot ends, moving a flag, and exposing lag, jitter, and packet loss. There are many bugfixes and other enhancements.
- 18 Jan 2005 00:10
Changes: The major new features in this release included support for vastly more complex worlds, physics drivers, graphics improvements, weather (rain, snow, frogs), tank treads and tracks, animations, record and playback, new flags, new commands, optimizations, and much more. Also added were a central registration system, global ban list support, network, new cheat preventions, and network optimizations.
- 28 May 2004 22:06
Changes: Admin, bot, and DNS bugfixes.
- 25 Jan 2004 23:47
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 10 Dec 2003 07:00
Changes: This version breaks compatibility with all older releases. Vote based kicking was added. Game parameters like gravity and world size are now tunable. Smarter bots were implemented. World weapons, a bzadmin text client, autopilot, a rabbit game style, single port networking, and new flags were added.
- All comments
Recent commentsGot hit by shot
really a fun game with great ideas (like the flying tanks, lol) ... i play it very often, it is totally addictive. :)
Too bad that mesa is such a slow software renderer, because then i would be able to play it on my slower computers that lack 3D acceleration.
You stole my GF!
Your game has taken over my girlfriend. She won't let me at my machine now as she can't stop playing bzflag. Wow! Well done!
It is a very addictive game!
Keep up the good work!
bzflag (-:
YesSir, im a bzflag addicted too... bzflag is one of the best games outta there. :-)
this game rock
Everyone should het this game .. it rules, my whole family loves it !!!