Liquid War
Liquid War is a truly original multiplayer wargame. You control an army formed with thousands of pixels (fighters) which look like liquid and try to eat your opponent. You can play against a primitive NPC/AI or up to 5 other human players. Network play is available.
| Tags | Games/Entertainment Real Time Strategy |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows MS-DOS Unix Mac OS X Windows |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 18 Oct 2007 04:38
Changes: This maintenance release includes a setup program for Microsoft Windows (using NSIS), new Win32 binaries compiled with MinGW instead of MSVC, a fix in the core algorithm (a long-standing 9 year old bug this might have caused crashes on some platforms), and various contributed patches concerning support for FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
- 30 Nov 2005 01:59
Changes: Joystick support has hopefully been fixed. It had been missing for several years due to dead and untouched broken code. Other minor bugs have also been fixed. As usual, the game comes with still more new maps. One notable change is that it now uses Allegro 4.2.0. RPM packages have not been generated yet.
- 14 Feb 2004 10:40
Changes: A nasty network bug which caused too many sockets to be opened has been fixed, and bots are now excluded from network games by default. The random map generator has been updated.
- 11 Jan 2004 13:00
Changes: The random map generator now works fully under Windows. Unix static binary packages have been linked against a lighter version of Allegro, which could prevent some yet unexplained segfaults on BSD and some Linux distributions.
- 20 Dec 2003 08:03
Changes: This release contains many more maps and makes it possible to associate maps with textures. It also comes with Danish support and a random map generator. Of course, there are several bugfixes as well, especially concerning network play under Windows.
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Recent commentsAmazing
This may be one of the best/oddest games I've ever played. It is also one of the best put-together apps I've seen for Linux. The game is great, the documentation is good and the author has links to all required libraries on his site.
I give Liquid Wars two thumbs up!
Best game I've seen in years
My whole family plays this game together. That includes girls aged 5 and 8. It's simple enough for them, yet complex enough to keep my wife and I at loggerheads for hours.
All Windows issues have disappeared; we played for hours on two boxes, redefining keys, adding and subtracting computer players, and having a blast. Very stable.
The family that plays together, stays together. Amazing game.
fun and original
It's very cool to find a strategy game that doesn't have complicated rules, doesn't take all day to play, and doesn't make you go blind looking at tiny icons on a map.
I was unable to get the FreeBSD version working -- the author was very responsive, and tried to help, but I think there's a problem with the Allegro library on FreeBSD 4.8. Finally got a chance to play it on my brother in law's Windoze machine, and it all went very smoothly.
Awesome
This game has a original idea and is done very nice!
Give it a try - you'll be spending hours playing...
great work
This game is really cool