About:
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.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
All calls to sprintf have been replaced by calls to snprintf, which is more secure. The server plays a little system "beep" when clients connect, and can also launch an external program on client connection. The client can display an approximate "server ping time" and use HTTP 1.1 to contact the metaserver. CPUs do not attack humans exclusively anymore. Three new maps are available. The game can now be compiled and run on Mac OS X (no binaries available for download yet).

Author:
Christian Mauduit [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.51/10.00 (16 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/v5
Tar/GZ:
http://www.ufoot.org/[..]iquidwar/v5/5.6.4/liquidwar-5.6.4.tar.gz
RPM package:
http://www.ufoot.org/[..]dwar/v5/5.6.4/liquidwar-5.6.4-1.i386.rpm
Bug tracker:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=liquidwar
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/liquidwar-user/
Mirror site:
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/liquidwar/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: MS-DOS, Microsoft :: Windows, Unix
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy

Dependencies: [change]
Allegro (Stable branch) (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	5.6.4	18-Oct-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
5.6.4	Minor bugfixes	18-Oct-2007 04:38
5.6.3	Minor bugfixes	30-Nov-2005 01:59
5.6.2	Minor bugfixes	14-Feb-2004 10:40
5.6.1	Minor bugfixes	11-Jan-2004 13:00
5.6.0	Minor feature enhancements	20-Dec-2003 08:03
5.5.9	Minor feature enhancements	06-Mar-2003 11:47
5.5.8	Minor feature enhancements	16-Dec-2002 21:56
5.5.7	Minor feature enhancements	01-Sep-2002 12:29
5.5.6	Minor bugfixes	17-Jul-2002 22:04
5.5.5	Minor feature enhancements	16-Jul-2002 16:19

 Comments

[»] Amazing
by Slicer - Jan 11th 2004 13:50:53

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!

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[»] Best game I've seen in years
by Jude Berrt - Dec 27th 2003 18:43:29

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.

--
We're out of dynamite. What we need now is a plan! --PCU

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[»] fun and original
by Ben Crowell - Dec 26th 2003 20:29:02

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.

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[»] Awesome
by Christian W. Zuckschwerdt - Jul 1st 2002 09:52:02

This game has a original idea and is done very nice!
Give it a try - you'll be spending hours playing...

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[»] great work
by Florent Cueto - Jul 19th 2001 02:51:38

This game is really cool

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